I am trying to walk a neophyte through an acid install remotely. I am sure some of you know how trying that can be. So here is where we are - He has booted the iso disk and answered up to the static IP where he took the defualt for DHCP for now. The install went along and asked to remove the disk and then rebooted. When it rebooted it asks for the test login I had him type root PW setup. He gets the prompt. I took him through the command to look at /root/acid-install.log and from what he read me I don't see any problem. It among other normal things says it went to dl.allsstarlik.org and imported the centos 5 pgp keys. I am not getting the text exactly right here but you get the idea. It did not show any errors on doing any of this and the last line is phase1.sh done - rebooting. So now every time it boots it comes back to the test login screen. I suspect no network connectivity but nothing ever told us that specifically. The computer he is using work wirelessly with winxp but would not work through a wired connection. We were not sure if this was a hardware or windows SW problem. I was able to get him to ping another active IP on his local network and it came back unreachable. This is an old laptop computer and a very computer inexperienced person at the other end and I am trying to do this remotely over the radio. It would be a lot easier if I was there. Any ideas? 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio