I'm having some trouble installing SL44 on a new machine from World of Computers. As far as WOC are aware, the only difference between this machine and the one I was asking about in December is that the IDE DVD-RW drive has been replaced by a SATA drive because they were having difficulty getting a different version of Linux to communicate with the IDE drive. However, the installation problems are quite different. Rather then freezing when I boot from the boot CD without any kernel options, the install process claims that it cannot find any hard drives. I tried using the all-generic-ide and pci=nommconf options - the hard drive was then detected, but the install process hung while formatting the root filesystem! The relevant hardware details (copied from the quotation) are: Motherboard + processor: Intel D965SSCK Core 2 Duo 6300 2MB cache Hard drive: 160GB - ST3160811AS - 7200rpm Serial ATA DVD drive: Samsung DVD RW (+/-) OEM Dual Layer/16xDVD+R,8xDVD+RW,16xRead-SATA The Seagate website does not seem to have any hard drives with the exact model number above but does have a ST3160812AS-RK - could this be why the computer is behaving differently? I was hoping they would also have a Linux driver to download but they didn't. Is the change in the DVD drive at all likely to be the cause of the problem, and could someone please explain how to get the installation working? Sorry for all the stupid questions. Eva.