I managed to yank my double talk and my Packard Bell actually had one ISA slot for it. extreme coolness. I loaded the workstation version of RedHat, but if anyone thinks I should load the server or other versions, I'm open to hear about it. I want to read the documentation, HowTo's, and just plain old browse the goodies disk that Janina sent me. How on earth do I access plain text and html files on the floppy and CDROM? I keep getting an error that hda0 or hda2 aren't in /dev I have some notes saved from previous threads that I saved from the list but I can't get to them if I can't access the floppy. from Keith H. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.