I have built a new box, based on a mobo with an athlon 2800 and the via k600 chipset. I am having trouble getting /any/ os to load. The CD drive ate my 8.1 disk one, it chewed it up during package selection. I put in another cd drive figuring it was the drive. The other drive doesn't do that. But instead, I get six tones sounding like a german police car, beep boop x3, and the sytem shuts down. With my 7.3 disk, it did it in package selection. With redhat 9.0, it did it during the loading of packages. With an HP restore disk for win 98, it did it at the very end of formatting the hard drive. I want to know why this is happening. Anybody have a clue? And would it be the cd drive or the hard drive. The bios boots fine. Now second question. What do I need to do to take the suse drive from my old box, where it is a slave, hdb, and put it in the new box, where it will be hda? I know I need to change the jumper on the drive. After I do that, how can I get at it to change fstab? What changes should I make in fstab? One way or another I want to get this much faster box running. -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately it kills all its students.