Well I can't say what is going on, but perhaps someone will know what has happend.<G> I can't mount floppies or cdroms. I keep getting for example, /dev/hdd is an invalid block device. I have both floppy support and ide cdrom support compiled as modules. I am certain they are loading, but of course will double check to be sure I didn't miss something. btw, silly question, but could Linux give an improper indication of memory? I get upon bootup that I only have 64mb of ram when there is 128mb ram in the box. I am sure this is some bios configuration problem that I havent' been able to track down, but just want to cover all bases. oh, its an ami bios if that makes any difference. Motherboard is new, like a week or so old. tnx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com