Well, been experimenting with a variety of distributions the last few days since I have 3 gigs open on a secondary hard disk drive. Installed the following distributions: Redhat 5.0 and 5.1 from cheapbytes Slackware 3.6 Caldera 1.2 base package along with staroffice 4 and other stuff SuSE 5.0 to 5.3 Now waiting for redhat 5.2 and turbolinux. So my extremely subjective opinion is that redhat installs quite easily and has some nice tools to build networking options, printing, etc. Caldera has an okay install packaging approach using LISA but it populates some menus with things that do not seem to work or claim to be old things. This is rather strange to me but, hey, most stuff works. Slackware. Man this is one hard thing to install. I think you have to be some linux guru or something to maximize your investment in slack. Some issues are that the gui setup program will not mount the cd correctly; but at the shell prompt, no problems. I also found the setup program extremely obtuse and hard to learn my way around in. SuSE 5.0 to 5.3 are extremely easy to install. If I had never done a linux installation before, I think honestly that redhat's install routine would grab me first. It seems intuitive and easy to grok. With SuSE 5.0 I had some false starts with rebooting and having yast running over and over again for no apparent reason since it just aborts. SuSE 5.3 works nicely and is my regular old desktop of choice. To be honest, though, I think when people see how SuSE sets things up and get used to the "SuSE way" it becomes apparent that SuSE is exemplary at setting up user interfaces and ways of doing things at a central level. It will be interesting to contrast SuSE 5.3 and RedHat 5.2. Even more so, when SuSE 6.0 makes its debut. I am still experimenting around with various ways of setting up two dists on one system. I think Michael Johnson is right regarding booting and lilo. I also subscribe to the svlug digest and Rick Moen has been quite helpful with some advice on this. Next thing is to try something like BEos or BSD. BEos looks rather interesting and my hardware is supported. -- Michael E. Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>