Hello, I got a step further: If I pick the installation with ACPI disabled then Yast feels happy and I can install (silly me, I should have tried that one earlier). The installation works fine until the first reboot. Here, the system hangs. Shutting down the box and rebooting, I get a kernel panic where the system claims to be unable to mount the filesystem. Ok, I thought maybe the initrd is not correct and struggles with reiserfs. I remember having had similar problems in the past with older SuSE versions. I reinstalled again using ext2 but with the same effect. Next attempt, I tried the rescue system of the 9.0 patch CD. Rescue systems were never my strong side but I tried to mount one of the harddisks manually. This did not work, I got an error in the direction that sda1 is not a valid block device. I cannot say if I screwed up with the mount or if the HDs are really not accessible (mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/test ok?). Sorry for the lacking details (dmesg etc) but without a working system I am a bit out of my water. My next steps: I am going to install Win XP. I planned for a dual boot anyway and this will give me a second opinion about my hardware. I am about to download another distro and I shall try with that one as well (if a free download should succeed where my shiny 145 CHF SuSE DVDs fail then I would be slightly pissed... :-) ). Once again, any helpful suggestion is welcome. regrads, einar