Fellows
I am working on a response. We all realise that the error we are taking about has crashed my system twice. Two day ago I was up in running, though I have not worked on an Internet connection with Linux yet and so do my Linux research via Windows. (Now I am on enougher Windows Machine) But my system is down, "law my low." But out something that the Imprata, I believe, Nero knew that the masses did not the night he sang as Rome burned was that out of destruction new opportunities await. So I am trying some things firstly before I follow up in more detail. Trust me I was not singing when my computer started sounding alarms despite the tempatures being below NORMAL and all fans operating and finally not being to to even get to the section of the boot process to run a "Live" CD or a "Rescue" mode in Linux, Windows XP, and Norton Boot Partition. But I am doing--at least trying--to install SUSE on my machine . . . I had to turn off the alarms and it allows me to boot the necessary CDs. So I something to work with couurntly.

I will talk with you later,

Tim

One guess for the initial problem (the su thing). The user doing the su must be in the wheel group.

For the so-called crashes your are experiencing, what is exactly happening? Your system doesn't boot anymore? Maybe you don't need to reinstall everything each time.

You can install a basic system (even without gui) with a simple partition table. This will remain. Later on you can try to make other things work. The thing that propably worries you the most is the boot isue. If you do something wrong, the computer, in some cases, doesn't boot any longer. But everything is in the file grub.conf that you can modify using a live cd even the compuer refuses to boot. If you need help, we can provide you with a simple example of grub.conf that will probaly fit your needs.