Everything seems fixed now, and I'm up and running. Now I just have to get my soundcard, NIC and modem working, and I'm off and running :) Message for Rik: Thank you as well! I reinstalled Mandrake on one of my machines,.... just to fix a whole mess of problems,... and noticed that I was asked to make a boot disk, but no root disk. I think therein lies my problem. I have to make one of those, or else I can't do any repairs. (all I get is "Kernel Panic") I will be taking that on this week, between sanding and painting in the house :) Thanks Again everyone Storm ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org