Hi; After crashing LFSMake and Mandrake had to start over from scratch. Made it through "make dive" with minimal problems. Ran "make stage2" with the following result: Fixing file/directory ownership and permissions... chown: root.root: invalid user make: *** [/usr/installinfo/MAKEDEV-2.5] Error 1 Why an "invalid user" and how is it to be corrected? TIA Clay Stapleton