Hi. Thank you for working on these programs. Unfortunately I'm having trouble installing the BDI 4.30 version. I'm not a complete newby, have used Redhat, and now Debian on other PC's. I've checked the md5sum of the iso downloaded, and of the CD itself. I've turned "detect virus by trend" off in the bios, and am using LBA mode for the 40G hard drive, and reburnt the CDRW to a CDR just incase, all as suggested in the FAQ. The install starts fine, all packages are then installed, but when the screen saying "post install config" or something pops up it crashes. The PC I'm trying to install on is a 500MHz AMD K6II processor, with 128MB RAM. I think there was a problem with BDI on K6 processors, but think newer versions of BDI are OK. I'm trying to use LVM too, with my own partitioning scheme, based on that I've used on my desktop PC. I'm trying the graphical install since there's a problem with text installations mentioned in one of the docs. I've been testing the memory and hard drive incase they could be faulty, but haven't found a problem with 13 hours of memtest86+ and full drive scan using badblocks destructive test. I'm just setting an "automatic" install running incase that works. I like lvm though, so it'd be a shame to loose that. If I can get it installed I could then set up lvm on another drive and move the install.... I've looked at the install.log and install.log.syslog files by booting the PC using Knoppix, the first lists 475 packages, the second lists user creation commands, which I think must have failed since I don't have any user directories created under /home. Well, the "automatic" install works a little better, at least it boots, but the user account I created doesn't exist, so I cannot do a graphical login-root is blocked. Logging into a command prompt I've looked again at the log files. install.log this time has the list of packages installed, then those available which weren't installed, then says: Changing configs on 23-12-2005 User name not found - anaconda bug ? root login not allowed by kdm etc.... I'm wondering about trying either a minimal install with lvm, or running the upgrade script on the partially working version. Anyway, I wonder if you might be able to investigate this further for me? I can supply any other details/files you need. I'd like to try emc out-and this has unfortunately been a fraustrating start! Happy Christmas, Arthur