I upgraded Redhat 9.0 to Fedora 1.0 and had major issues. I then performed fresh install and had not so many issues, but still a few issues which had I thought was a result of the upgrade. The greatest issue was with the hardware checking during boot. It did absolutely nothing. It wouldn't detect my external IEEE1394 (firewire) CDRW which RH 9 had no problem detecting at all. And of course issues with installing rpms. Seems much software is not yet ready for the newest kernel or the latest gcc/libstdc++, or the latest SGI performer beta which works great with RH9 but will require installation of different libstdc++ rpm/files, etc, etc. Anybody know how to force kudzu to find an external cdrw? I'd appreciate it. Seems setting up the /etc/fstab with same opeions as cdrom and creating a link from /dev/scd0 to /dev/cdrw with cdrw set up in the /etc/fstab file isn;t good enough. Any ideas would be greatly beneficial. Thanks Patrick