hope I did this right... Continued

[Dean MacIsaac Jr.]

First off I'd like to say thanks for the help everyone,  I tried a few things, and am now pretty sure it's my VIA chipset / motherboard.  The first thing I did was begin the install so I could setup a swap Partition.  However...  Linux had already done that.  When the install got to the partition segment, my linux partition was sub partitioned 4 times I believe, and 1 was swap, and automatically 2x my ram...  Pretty cool system.  So I backed out of Install, and booted up.   I used 'free' andd got...    free        total        used        free        shared        buffers        cache                                     mem    191172     47128     144044         0            9876          22980                                     -/+ buffers/cache  14272     176900                                     swap        0            0              0   Then I did 'top', I had 25 items listed, and only top was active.   I then did 'rhn_register', damn this is slow.  FYI, I'm still in text mode, and I have a cable modem.  I push through all the screens until I get to th uploading config file.  Just over half done, and I get socket errors, enough to put me back to the prompt.  Tried it twice.  So now out of aggrivation I just 'startx'...   As I start an alert box pops up, pretty sure it said something to the effect of "cannot connect to server x1-6-00-80-ad-01-11-fa"   From there I use the web to try and register and update my RH 7.2.  First I notice I'm registered 2x...  odd I've only installed once.  And Red Hat says all my stuff is "up2date", so unless something weird is going on, I'm thinking it's my motherboard, as suggested by a few people.  Damn, and I so do not want to go Intel...   Well everyone, thanks for your time.  I will definitely be paying attention to this list as I'm trying to convince my company that this might be a good way to go.     Dean   PS while I'm here... One can not post to the newsgroups?