well, i gave up and installed 1.6.2 from the cd just so i could get the boot
blocks on there to wedge my install of 2.0 beta onto it. ;)

it runs great now!!!

thanks everyone!!

now the next issue, getting the Matrox Millenium working:

ofb0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: cannot map framebuffer

-brian
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