Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :) Your suggestions sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Greatly appreciated! Actually.. one question. Won't it try to set up a swap partition? Or will what you recommend keep that to a minimum too? Thanks again.. finally some useful information to a simple question. hah (not that I don't appreciate the advice that's been given so far.. it's just not what I was looking for) -TG = = = Original message = = = I would install Fedora Core 6. When asked which packages to install, uncheck everything. Then, once you have the install complete, using yum install ~httpd ~php ~mysql ~samba Here is my current running packages for the above programs httpd-2.2.4-2.fc6 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.8.1a-1.2.2 mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6 mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12-2.2 mysql-server-5.0.27-1.fc6 php-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-cli-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-common-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-mbstring-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-mysql-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-pdo-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-pear-1.4.9-4 php-pgsql-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 samba-3.0.24-7.fc6 samba-client-3.0.24-7.fc6 samba-common-3.0.24-7.fc6 system-config-samba-1.2.35-1.1 don't install the devel packages of anything all of this installed on top of the base install should be well under 1g make sure and run 'yum update' seems like there are updates every couple hours. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php