Sam, I can't say thank you enough for pitching in. Indeed, it does sound like getting a network going between the windows box and linux box at this stage of my "development" (using the term quite figuratively :-) ) is not the best use of anyone's time. Solution: I have borrowed a friend's old external CD burner. I d/l'ed all 12 rpm files in the SuSE70 folder at the ftp site, and also d/l'ed the 5 rpm files in the DRI folder in case I need the open-gl drivers too. Once the CD is done, I can then move forward by creating the /home/tmp directory on the linux box, mount the cdrom and copy everything. I'll dig into the readme and relnotes before doing anything further. Keep hope alive! Thanks again. Mike Flug michael.flug@snet.net

I think the easiest way to go would be to get networking going on hte Linux box. Unless you have a CD-burner on hte Windows box you wont be able to get the RPMs onto your Linux filesystem. Trying running YaST to get networking set up.

Once you do that, the files you need to download are at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE/ under the suse70/ directory. Be sure and read the README and RELNOTES carefully.