philip, i just have two hints, workarounds. they even sound stupid, but: > I'm using the loadlin from install.bat to load the bootdisks. tried to boot with rescue.bin floppy? > As soon as it's trying to connect to dhcp, it's hanging up. Not even > the other console-windows work (Alt-F2...) try to assign yourself a static IPadres instead of dhcp. does that change anything? markus -- (c) All Rights Recycled