Thanks everyone. Turned out to be a bad iso. Now before you jump down my throat for not md5summing it, I did that once. I downloaded the file on my laptop, and then ran md5 on it. It passed. I then scp'd it to one of my other computers so I could load it on my laptop and I guess that is where it broke down. I re downloaded it with my desktop directly, ran md5 and away it went. So jsut for everyone's benefit, you can dump the iso in the nfs share and install from there. -- -=/>Thom