hi tim, thanks for the prompt help. well my processor is a samual c3 processor. and the chipset is via. I find that slacs (a small version of slackware) is running fine on that stick of 256 mb. now after compiling the static flite appplication, I will try it tomorrow. but just in anticipation, if static building does not work what should I do? any ideas? thanks again, Krishnakant. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list