Gary Stainburn wrote: > This laptop does not have a floppy drive. When booting, when FC1 gets to > the > 'checking for new hardware' stage it generates error messages while > trying to insmod floppy.o. 4 very low-level suggestions from a non-guru. (1) Is there a floppy entry in /etc/fstab ? If so delete it. (2) Go to /lib/modules/<version>/drivers/block/ and delete or rename floppy.o . (3) Turn off kudzu service kudzu off (4) Find which init program does this: cd /etc/rc.d/init.d grep -r floppy . If you find the culprit, comment out the command. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland