very current (08:00gmt the 11th) thinkpad t40p make world and kernel boot single abuser to do the installworld can mount drives one at a time until i get to /tmp which is defined as md /tmp mfs -s131072,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0 locks up as installworld has not happened, it should not be the new automagic /tmp mfs. or am i misunderstanding that? randy