There are known problems with the boot-floppies and some Adaptec cards. Can you try the kernels or floppy images at ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/ and let us know your results? You also mentioned disk formatting problems. Can you give us any more information about the error message you received? Is the SCSI bios configured for any kinda wierd LBA mode or anything? -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>