Hi List Following the sdvise of some of the people responding to my question, I went and bought a normal IDE disk to install FC2. I'm glad to report that I am now the prowd owner of a working FC2 on AMD_64 platform. I think I should also shower the developers and all involved with this release with compliments! Well done, really, this ios the best I've ever seen Linux! I am most impressed with the way the look and feel of the gui has improved. The fonts are crisp and neat and I have still to find ANY problems with regards to compatibility with MS Office docs. It looks to me that my problems were almost 100% due to problems with SATA disk/controllers, so I'm wondering what I can do to make my system run off the SATA disk completely. I have an MSI K8TNEO MoBo with the VIA VT8327 SATA controller ( which FC2 correctly detected during install). Are there any patches/updated drivers I can load in order to get my installation working on my MAXTOR 120GB ( 6Y120MO)? I've also just noticed that when I try to use gFTP to ftp to or from my other box, it immediately crashes and exits without transferring anything. I can however ftp from command line. Thanks for any help. Again, great work on this release, I LOVE IT!!!