Stoney X, you were a bit unlucky! I've installed MySQL on at least 6 OS since I started using it and I've yet to have a single installation problem. Sorry I said that it would work fine with Fedora 3 when it clearly didn't - that'll teach me to talk about something I've not tried (though I did say at the time I'd not tried it). Glad it's working now. It's a great bit of software - PPRuNe runs at 400 queries per second sometimes, has never lost a byte of data and has been up for getting on for 9 months. Not bad for a free database on a free OS. Of course, now I've said that the RAID controller will probably melt or something...