This is the third machine I'm installing FC6 on this month :) The first two went smoothly, but this one (P4 1.5 gHz, 256 MB RDRAM) is giving me kernel panic after booting from the install disk. I've snapped two pics of the screen here: http://dotancohen.com/kernelPanic1.jpg http://dotancohen.com/kernelPanic2.jpg Note: the pics are 1.8 MB each! I'm in no position to make them smaller at the moment- technical BS. The machine has got a CD ROM drive and I salvaged the DVD drive from another known-good machine. I have three disks here: SLAX CD, Kubuntu CD, and FC6 DVD. All three disks give kernel panic when booted from the DVD drive. From the CD drive, FC6 and Kubuntu panic, but SLAX lights right up and runs fine. Note that onle one drive is attached at a time: I've only got a one-headed IDE cable at the moment. Memtest86+ runs all night on the machine and turns up fine. The post test beeps like it should, no morse code. What could I check? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/youtube.html http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_hdtv.html