Hi all, Finally, Linux is running on my home machine!!<smile> Janina, you were right. Because I have had multiple versions of the 2.6 kernel on this machine, I needed to type in the entire kernel name of course. I also had to make sure to put the img specification at the end of the first reference to the kernel. After this was done, everything has been talking on bootup!!! Thanks to Kenny Hitt for his help on this and to everyone who had responded to my queries publicly and privately. Now it's on to the info and the man pages and my final exam in Linux next week. Thanks again for your assistance, Beth