Dear Fellows, I bought two months ago SuSE 8.0 Professional (boxed with 7 CD's and 1 DVD). I learned a lot from this installation process as well as of of (SuSE) linux (I'm a newbee). Now I downloaded SuSE 8.1 from the Swiss Mirror server on a PC with W2K installed. I now want to make a clean install of SusE 8.1 on my Linux (SuSE) PC, on which now resides SuSE 8.0. This is what I've done sofar: 1. I wrote the boot.cd of SuSE 8.1 on a CD-ROM (raw write). 2. I connected the W2K PC (3COM NIC) with my SuSE PC (3COM NIC) with a Cat 5 crossover cable. 3. I made the SuSE 8.1 folder on my W2K PC shared allowed. 4. I changed BIOS setting of my SuSE PC, so it could boot from the CD-ROM. 5. I booted from the bootable CD-ROM. I choose Manual Installtion and then network. However, it did not recognise a network. To conclude, I'm unable to install SuSE 8.1 on my Linux (SuSE) PC from my networked W2K PC. What do I have to do, so that I can go from my SuSE PC (booted from the bootable CD) to the folder on my W2K PC and get SuSE 8.1 installed from there? Look forward hearing! Best regards, Gjalt Oostenbrug