Well, after numerous starts and fits it mostly got installed. I can manage an emergency terminal in X, but that's it. X complains of a missing default font. Is there a nice safe app that I can start from xterm to reset and/or chose another font?? I can't cut and paste in this mode, or I'd copy the log results. Is there a nice desktop independent system wide gui to set things right? On boot udev times out. I've managed to use firefox from the emergency xterm command line so I can fire up individual gui's or goto level 3 for command line. I've checked the numerous references to udev, as well as I can manage in this crippled state, but have not found what I can recognize as the 'fix'. Any considerations will be highly appreciated!! Otherwise, I'm highly impressed with the nice colorful boot screen, nice touch. That, alone, seems to work. <eg> ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "Th! ere are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ <hr size=1>New <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman4/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.</a> Call regular phones from your PC for low, low rates.