Ok Bun - Thanks for your assistance in getting me off the ground loading KDE... I finally got it. ......................................... Now... The mmc2 still shows corrupt even though it runs the OS and stores KDE on partition 2... I suspect the format failed on partition 1 using the automatic nupgrade script. I agree with you that you lots of space on that partition to run the kde. More to follow in other threads about details of kde. Thanks Bun!