Hello again. Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb memory). PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card. Using 'linux askmethod' to be able to install off of my FTP server (have done 4 PC installs so far off that server successfully) It's video card is: S3 86C270-294 Savage IX/MV After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical install available. Putting on and external monitor does not change this. Problem with the character mode install is no LVM partition management functions. I need to alter the default partitioning. This IS an older notebook. It does have Centos 4.4 on it right now. How would I use the ftp install and specify 'acpi=no' (perhaps the old bios???). Or I could build a partial kickstart file on a diskette (add the USB diskette drive) to do the partitioning and then switch to package selection (and maybe even in graphical mode)? Some guidance here would be great.