There just wasn't enough room on the color12 disk for it to work in most cases. It worked fine on my 386-SX16, but maybe machines with more partitions were using up the space in /tmp. Anyway - use the tty12 disk for now. I'm working on the problem. You can also try this if you have a working Linux box: Put the "bareboot" disk in your boot drive, and type: rdev -r /dev/fd0 1440 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1 This will allow you to boot the color144 disk in your 1.44MB second floppy drive. Pat