Well, I purchased a internal Sun Microsystems SCSI CDROM (relabeled toshiba) and I just booted to the Debian Woody 3.0 utility/install menu off the cd on the SGI Indy with no read errors. =-) Maybe it'll be an option yet. Would anyone care to help me from this point on? Jay Schlatter Manager Information Services Goodwill Industries of Michiana, Inc <http://www.goodwill-ni.org/> (574) 472-7383