First off, I want to say that I am NOT an idiot, so you can fling whatever computer lingo you want at me :) Before I describe my problem, here are my computer specs, if they are of any help: Pentium II-300MHz 320MB RAM Creative ViBRA 16x PnP at IRQ 5, I/O 220 Generic Modem at IRQ 3, I/O 0x3F8 Western Digital WD205AA at /dev/hda Seagate ST310212A at /dev/hdb Philips PCRW804 at /dev/hdd AMD PCnet32 Compatible PNA Net Card, IRQ9 A serial port somewhere :) An nVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 at IRQ 11 A modem identified by Linux as "ES2898" Window$ 2000 inhabiting /dev/hda Linux using /dev/hdb And, butofcourse, trusty old USB... Here's the deal: I burned the IMAGE.BE to a CD, expecting it to boot, and it didn't, so I used the supplied floppy.img as a bootdisk, and all worked well. However, as things often go in this computer world, BeOS and Win2K didn't get along and corrupted all of my partitions. Since then, I have foolishly lost my bootdisk. So, at the advice of Be, I downloaded a 4.5 bootdisk to boot the CD and initialise the installer. This worked perfectly until maybe Be's 4th? icon in the bootloader, when I received the ominous message stating that there was "no shell!" Thus, I have chronicled my tale up until the current time. I would be much obliged if someone were to help me out. I have no problem with downloads, as long as they are considerably small and the URL is supplied, as neither of my modems are working correctly and I am stuck with my neighbor's 9600bps modem. Please help!!!

try the new IDE bootdisk over at bebits: http://www.bebits.com/app/2625 this might work for your problem.