Hi again, Part 1 ------ I thought I'd try installing FC2 on the box with the NIC driver problem hoping that FC2 would already have the right driver. However, I get an error saying "An error occurred transferring the install image to your hard drive. You are probably uot of disk space." I already use ide=nodma and skipddc as parameters, but still have the problem. (I know skipddc probably isn't related, but I figured I'd mention it anyway...) Part 2 ------ I get the following display-related error: Exceptions.StandardError("Invalid modeline in file: %s"%(line)) It originates in /usr/bin/anaconda, line 670 when importing xsetup I had this problem on this machine before, but I thought skipddc would fix it. It did not come up after I started using skipddc. The whole installation automatically switched to text mode with skipddc, but I'm able to live with that. However, I suddenly start having this problem even with skipddc. How can I get around this? Thanks, MARK