Hi, Firstly thank you for your help with my other problem on 5.3. This one is slightly more distressing to me and concerns 4.11-STABLE. I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.11 on the server mentioned in theother article because of some stability advice about 5.3, and I started getting odd probelms. Firstly, the installation program kept stopping after it had downloaded a little or none of the base distribution from the FreeBSD ftp servers (ftp.freebsd.org and ftp./uk.freebsd.org were both tried). After a number of restarts, the installation got further until at the bottom of the main console I saw the following (I am guessing the first word should be panic, but): anic: vwakeup: neg numoutput syncing disks...ips: WARNING: command timeout. Adapter in toaster mode, resetting to knwon state ips0: reinitializing adapter, this could take several minutes. ips0: syncing config ips0: ERROR: unable to get command! cant sync cache! ips0: adapter clear failed ips0: AIEE! adapter reset failed, giving up and going home! Have a nice day. Should I report this as a bug? I am not sure because I dont know what vwakeup is. Thanks in advance for your help, Alex Burke.