Thanks John. I'll check the BIOS on these machines. Unfortunately, i need the DVD based setup to work because sometimes i have to do this at odd places where i don't have the network infrastructure to do PXE boots. What i'm confused about is that i didn't have these problems (well, mostly) in the the 4.5 based distro (and a 3.x based distro from a while back...but that was using CDs instead of DVDs). It's only since moving to 4.6 and 4.7 that i'm seeing this consistently. Any other ideas? Thanks again. ...alex... John wrote: > JohnStanley Wrote: > > Alex, have you tried setting the USB Option in the BIOS to Autodetect > between USB 1.0 and 2.0? That is if your machines BIOS supports that option. > Plugable USB drives are nice additions but my opinion is there not so good > at OS Installation, but don't get me wrong they are nice to boot a running > centos install to repair an install on a broken machine.. What about doing a > network install or VNC install from your desk? > > Good Luck, > JohnStanley > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >