you know the other thing I find helpful on that point? if you back up your configureation files to another partition of some other form of media, it'll save having to redo the whole bloody thing when u want to totally blow it away and redo it from scratch. a few times I've done this and in all, it's taken me just under 2 hours to install and configure slackware 7.1 try doing that with windows. not bloody likely. -- Shaun I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. -- Lucy Van Pelt email: shauno at goanna.net.au icq: 76958435