<EvilSysOp> You said your last backup was when?!?!? </EvilSysOp> Best I can say, if you've got the tape, you're set, if not, I don't think you want to know where you are. mbutler Argh! I just ran out and bought 7.2 so I'd have the 'official' cd distribution. I get all the way to the last screen of the install process and get a kernel panic. Says "Attempted to kill init!", whatever that means. I am attempting to install over 6.1, I can't upgrade because my partitions were blown away. Any good advice and I'll give you my first born, or a beer. -David