I have installed FC4test2 on my computer (from DVD) [first attempt at FC4], and it is unbelievably slow. The booting process took a long time -- and then when it came time to estimate install time for the packages -- it started at over 300 minutes to install everything. After rebooting -- it was again painfully slow -- 15+ minutes. It booted to the SMP version (the first time I realized the processor in that computer was Hyperthreaded). The processors ran at 50% utilization for a while before finally calming down.... but the whole operating system is still painfully slow. The computer is based on a P4C800-E Deluxe (bios updated to current most recent) P4 3.0E (3 Gigahertz) 4 GB of main memory (3.4 GB usable). 250 G hard drive (disconnected the other 3 drives since I could not figure out which one was the bootable one otherwise). NVidia GeForce 3 Any ideas -- why this thing is sooooooooooo slow. C __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs