Well, again as I write (her indoors keeps finding jobs for me to do) the installation froze with just 4 mins to go and nothing but nothing would start the machine up again apart from pulling the plug and restarting.
1: "Do you want to install?" 2; "Do you want to update?"
Choosing update, the usual questions come up on screen and after a few minutes blank screen and then a red DOS like error message saying errors encountered and back to boot up screen!!
I'll report and undoubtedly ask silly questions in due course!
Is that another one bites the dust?
I finally got all the bits together to build my AMD-64 machine last night. I put the SuSE 10.0 DVD in the drive, and about an hour later I had a fully working system. The proprietary ATI driver installed without a hitch giving openGL hardware acceleration and one big desktop across both displays. I started the first online update and then went to bed. By this morning it had downloaded and installed all the patches.
Peter