On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:35, Frank wrote: > Hallo, > I don't quite see why you *want* to remove hotplug. I see a lot of > harmless warning messages on startup. That's perfectly normal on > Linux. Ah yes, I probably didn't explain that bit. If it gave _an_ error message it would be fine. But it goes on and on about it. You see I'm using a rather cranky old AV55 MoBo *cough* and I think hotplug is looking for something rather more sophisticated than what my board has to offer :-] I've deleted all four packages for now, I will worry about it once I've actually got the demudi part of my install to give me anything but error messages. The equipment I'm trying to run this on would probably make you shudder, so the various 'undocumented creatures' in some of these packages, I'm guessing, have more chance of fouling up the works. Besides I'm an utter newbie, so there's probably a couple of _really_ obvious things I've overlooked in my configuration. I'm working my way through it slowly and I guess I'll just have to be patient. It is just so valuable having a few online brains to pick. Thank you all, you give me hope :-) tim hall