Hi Markus, Yes I was wondering the same thing .. Ive been trying for days.. As Ive said Ive done installs using the Beginers install and also the copy from CD but the full debian install Ive tried probably 10-15 times and get various results using different approaches.. Using Ctl Alt F1 does not seem very good.. Ive used KNOPPIX-INSTALLER and allways have to specify the IGNORE_CHECK=1 option to get into the install menu even though there seem to be a swapp file of 800Meg available and a Linux partition of 3.7Megs as well. Ive tried using a console from within KDE and used KNX2HD which appears to be the same script but when it runs the partition checks up it uses QTPARTED or what ever its called instead of CFDISK.. This seems better . I have rebooted after making partition changes and run it again to check before proceeding with the install. The best I get is a system that runs up fine apart from having no KDE ability. This DCOP server not running is what I end up with and thats the closest I get to a complete install. I wonder if my CD image is in error ? Ive run the checkcd option allready on 2 CDs .