I am in a tangle... I am trying to install 7.3 which finally arrived two days ago. I want to do a fresh installation, but the computer used to run 7.0 without many problems. It is an old world computer - an old PowerBase 180 with a PowerLogix G3 card, which I install using an external CD-R drive, as the internal one seems to have gone in the way of old CD-Roms... Anyway, I boot into MacOS, get into the BootX app, select the ramdisk image, select a kernel - and it goes into linux, but stops the boot process after finding the CD-R drive. It says something like "CD-Rom drive 3.2", and stops working. That's the basic problem. To add a problem to my problems, however, I booted it once in this way, but selected by mistake the old vmlinux from the 7.0 system. This time it booted well and started the installation process - including formatting my root partition (as I said, I wanted a fresh installation). However, when it was time to boot into the new system and continuing with CD-2, it failed. It went into linuxrc, and then the screen went blank, and nothing further happened, not even a disk spin. So, currently I'm in a state where I don't have a system at all (except MacOS, which doesn't help me, I use this server mainly for PHP development). I find it hard to believe that the 2.4 kernel doesn't support a CD-R that was supported by 2.2. Remember, although this machine is rather odd (Mac clone, CPU card, external CD-R), this whole shebang worked in the past. Herouth -- EMAIL: herouth@netvision.net.il HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/