Howdy; First, I hope this is the right mailing list. . . . I'm installing SUSE 8.1 under VmWare workstation 3.1.1 And it keeps freezing on the installation. This is my first time installing Linux, so I could be doing something wrong. I have talked to my buddy and he walked me thru some of the process. But it froze soon after. I have done an all text install, and the 640x480 GUI install. Both freeze on me. . . I have made a 10gig partition just for the SUSE 8.1 to install. Its on partition "k." Comp specs: Win2k server Athlon 1800+ 1024mb pc-133 wd 120gb hd etc. I've allocated 512mb of ram to SUSE. I have pressed ctrl+alt while it's installing, would that have anything to do with it freezing? This is where it freezes during GUI install: http://12.241.223.121/images/nix.jpg This is where it freezes during text based install: http://12.241.223.121/images/nix2.jpg Here is an image of the config: http://12.241.223.121/images/config.jpg Thank you for your help, and suggestions! ---- Alex Togstad Web Developer alextogstad@3dretreat.com