and again, gentoo. Ian >>Followed the instructions - downloaded and ran fine, except it did not >>seem to recognise my distribution (Fedora Core 1). This is the error >>message in full: >>"The installer was unable to identify your operating system. >> >>Please mail the full text of this error to <distribution@ximian.com>. >> >> > >Ditto here exactly, Mandrake 9.1 x86 > > >