I did my upgrade today FROM 9.0. There were a number of dependancy problems, but got rid of them when I told Yast to delete Gimp and Gaim. All seems to be well, EXCEPT (once again - a CONTINUAL problem for Linux) getting the CD-RW drive to work. KDE didn't come up with a CD icon, so I had to create it. Fstab does have the two lines (/dev/cdrom * /dev/cdrecorder) listed. I can't read any disk, the system tells me it's mounted as /media/cdrecorder, but ls reports that there's no medium in the drive. YES, the system does correctly identify the drive, and I installed from that drive, plus Yast can use it to install additional software. Any ideas? Thanks, Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)