It wasn't until I stopped thinking this was a shrink wrapped no brainer install that I had success with iPC. I now have good installs on my nice quad core machine with an Intel DG43NB mobo, this was on no ones "compatible" list when I started, and my sister's low end compaq laptop. I read and took notes. Both of the machines worked with the base system and bootloader and a few select items from the distro. Once I started to understand a bit better, things fell into place nicely. pcwiz, u ROCK brotha'. I just joined here, and have only been in osx86 since 4/10. I am a real noob. Had a few macs in the past tho. Still have the EMac I got a few years back. My daughter loves Photo Booth, and I wanted Leo. I almost bought a Mac mini, but the credit card in my wallet expired the day before my purchase, LOL. I started researching, and now have a Mac Pro class machine for the price of a mini. As for where I will do my research and post what tips I can, I guess I will do it here and not worry about im. Thanks again to u Gurus!