Hi, sorry for the post here. I was hoping if someone has seen an error as described below. google did not give much links. System: PIII,450Mhz, Intel board SR440BX, 320MB ram, Segate 7200 rpm 80g gb disk. cdrom: cdrw-samsung52X/teac32x Bug report: http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1187 SME server Version: 7.0rc1 iso. image verifies md5 on windows xp system. Problem: monitor displays the following and freezes. loading vmlinuz......... loading initrd.img............. Ready. What's wrong here? I am not able to get to the media check. FC5, WinXP boot and install. So i am thinking no hardware fault. Changing CD drive does not help. previous versions: Centos 4.2 server CD installs and is fine. I only wanted a UI as i am not very familar to the command line(read newbie). I had loaded sme server 6.0 on this system successfully. I will be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction. As this is OT, an off list reply also is ok with me. TIA, Raghavendra Moktali