I've seen some people complain about the speed of SuSE 8.2 install. Now I haven't gotten my grubby little paws on 8.2 yet, but I've noticed the following with 8.0 Pro and 8.1 Pro. 1. CPU speed directly affects the install speed, even with the same optical drives and hard drives. This is because most rpm packages include configuration steps, which just happens faster on a faster CPU. I've witnessed this on many machines that got either just a CPU upgrade, all other components including mobo unchanged, as well as on machines that got a new cpu+mobo. 2. Both do a reboot after the first CD, and neither enable DMA on my CD-RW or DVD. Which means your install happens a hell of a lot slower. So what I do is when I boot off the CD, I wait for the screen where you select your language, hit Ctrl+Alt+F2, and do # /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc # /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd (hdc and hdd being where my drvies sit as /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 - ide-scsi) Alt+F7 back to GUI install, and continue. After the reboot after the first CD, I do the same. This speeds up the process greatly. The effect of DMA=off on a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM is so great, that I get jerky playback on a DivX movie from CD on a AthlonXP 1800+ with 256Mb RAM and TNT2 graphics (with nVidia drivers installed and working). Hope this helps Hans == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile