I don't entirely understand this. Do you mean run it from the text command line? What is runlevel 3? Bill Drew Upgrade in non X mode (runlevel 3). Seth Vidal did write down some notes for upgrading using yum http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt Alexander P.S. It is X Window System - Windows[tm] is a registered trademark by Microsoft -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 17:00:13 up 19 days, 14:39, load average: 0.35, 0.50, 0.32