Thanks to all for suggestions; it was apparently a corrupt disk image that was causing the CDROM load to work. No idea about the network problem, but I got it going so I don't much care. And for Monday's task: getting the thing configured... *grin* - rob. ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html