Hello, Steve. Shrike is actually the previous version of Red Hat. The current version is Fedora and has many updates including gnome 2.4, gnopernicus, as well as many other packages. You might want to hold off your install until you grab Fedora. Hth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Clower" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:52 PM Subject: new RedHat user with a question Hi folks, I am taking the big plunge and am working on getting the latest version of RedHat installed on my laptop. I have downloaded the three Shrike iso images and have burned each image to a CDR. When I boot up my laptop with CD 1 in the CD-ROM drive, the CD spins up, but as far as I can ascertain the Linux boot screen does not appear. Instead, my computer boots right up into Windows. My guess is that the BIOS needs to be set, but I'm not entirely certain if this is the case. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate them. My apologies if this has been brought up on this list before. If this is the case, feel free to reply to me privately. Thanks, Steve Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup