Thanx for your response! I turned on the SMP rule and selected the 386 family of processors(even though uname reports 686---selecting 686 didn't seem to work) and it worked BUT I stopped the compile process(CTL-C) because there were other rules I wanted to try out.I did a "make xconfig" and I got the following error message : /usr/src/linux/.hdepend:1191: *** missing separator. Stop. ( now I cant even get to the kernel configuration window) What's happening now? Jeff Mutonho Cape Town South Africa _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk