hi there, here's a little followup on my own adventures installing FC3: I believe to have narrowed down the problem: I'v got a wacom intuos tablet (usb) which didn't quite work under FC2 (it did work with FC1 !). I somehow thought that upgrading to FC3 should fix this, so I plugged the tablet into the computer when I started the installation process. It now appears that its a h/w conflict related to that device that gets into the way, at least I succeeded setting up FC3 with the tablet being unplugged. Is this a known issue ? Can I somehow help track the bug down further (I could submit a bug report but I'm not quite sure that it's really related to my tablet, so I wanted to check here before). Thanks, Stefan