Well, it looks like you covered most of the bases, except that you missed the RedHat Installation manual. I checked the one on their website, in the textmode installation section, at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/install-guide/s1-start-install.html entitled "Starting the Installation Program", and it says: Note that the command to start a serial installation has changed. If you must perform the installation in serial mode, use the following command: boot: linux text console=<device> In this command, <device> should be the device you are using (such as ttyS0 or ttyS1). So apparently you were very close, needing just the "linux" kernel keyword at the beginning. I don't know if you can add the baud rate. Hope this is what you need. You could subscribe to one of the RedHat mailing lists if this doesn't work, and get good help there, no doubt (and any linux user should at least subscribe to their distribution's announce list -- default installs are the number one security hazard on the internet, regardless of the OS, so you MUST install the security patches). LCR On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Jennifer E Jobst wrote, in part: > On the Linux end, I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.1 from a boot > floppy and two CDs that I downloaded and burned. When I get > to the boot: prompt, I type in the following: > > text console=/dev/ttyS0,9600 -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html