> Hmmm this could be the solution to my long standing install > problems, I will try this out on the weekend and see how things go. > > I have a 540Mb scsi drive which I have partitioned similar to the > following: > > 490Mb / (partition 1) 40Mb swap (partition 2) > > I'll put the swap partition to the front of the drive and see how > things go and mail the list. Yep, this seems to be the same problem as Kerstin had. Roman