ok, i'm cheap. i bought a copy of 7.2 and don't really care to pop for 7.3. i built a new little box and i'm so cheap i didn't bother putting a floppy drive in it. the problem is, how do i get SuSE 7.3 onto this pig? here's what i figured. Boot the 7.2 cd into manual install. Load the tulip driver for my nic. i tell it to start installation and i choose ftp for the mdeium. i tell it my ip address, 192.168.1.102, give it my router's ip address, 192.168.1.1, the address of the dns server i use, the ip address for ftp.suse.com, 202.58.118.12, the path, /pub/suse/i386/7.3. i tell it i want to do a fresh install, but let it use the fstab from a minimal 7.2 install i did. it spends a lot of time claiming that's loading data to a ram disk and then starts yast1. i tell it i want to create/change configuration and it starts getting configuration stuff off the server but eventually dies. alt-f3 gets me the following ... Error : Unknown Error!, Deteil: 0, File: PkrRetriever.cc Line: 622 /sbin/YaST return code is 256 (errno = 2) is what i want to do impossible, or is there just a little something wrong in my approach. should i give up and cannabalize anoher box for a floppy drive? that's probably the easiest approach, but what i'm doing seems, (to me), like it ought to work. thanks, bc -- "If I had known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself." Phillip K Dick A Scanner Darkly