> > Sir, > Thanks for your mail.. gad to know that u wish to > help me in this regard. > Ok now i need a help from u . Yesterday i installed > 'ltsp' in the server.. First time it booted up well .. > from a diskless pc.. > & then after 2 or three boots.. itz not comin > up...from the diskless pc > > the error is "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" This message is pointing to a hardware trouble. Difficult to say without seeing it. Try the following. (one at a time) 1. Put the ehtercard in another PCI slot. 2. using the BIOS setup, dedicate IRQ7 to ISA so that the PCI card will net see that . Try another ether card if you have. ajith --------------------------------------------- FSUG-Calicut Home Page : //www.freelists.org/webpage/fsug-calicut ---------------------------------------------