Your best bet is to try installing using the floppy. cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0
then do what you did last time root/setup. My theory is that when you boot the bios is possibly seeing the scsi controller first. This may be changeable in your bios settings. bios: (hd0) - scsi linux: (hd0) - ide make sense? Its something I've seen before myself and got around by installing from a floppy. But I don't know if what I think is happening is what is happening. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]