Well, I tried in vein to get my serial mouse to work for install but was unsuccessful. I found in the release notes a link to bugzilla which notes the problem and states that it might be alright, load in text mode and it may work after install. It doesn't. In fact, after install I restart and am brought to a gui "FirstBoot" menu which sets up my system for me... (I have to navigate with Tab)... one of the steps is configuring sound and it plays some tones, then flips to a dialog box that asks if I heard the tones okay. After I press yes, focus is not given back to the underlying "FirstBoot" window and I'm stuck... with no mouse, I can't get focus back to the window to finish my "FirstBoot." I tried a PrtScr, which brought up the "save" box and I tried to Alt+Tab back to the "FirstBoot"... no luck. So I Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to get to a LocalHost login. Type my name and password and I'm taken to a gui login... which in turns loads Gnome and I'm stuck in a gui with no mouse. Is there ANY way for me to get my mouse up? I know it's valid... Knoppix has no troubles recognizing it and I can use some comand line options to get Slax and BeatrIX to see it as well. Here's some specs: 1st Mainboard (FIC) VA-503+ Socket 7 AMD k6-2 533mhz 210mb ram Dexxa 3-button serial mouse Thanks! Chevee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/