People, As well as the other problems I reported, using this command: qemu-kvm -m 512 -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -cdrom /backup/arch/Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso hangs at the line: "Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs. . . " Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil at pricom.com.au