Hello All, I am still new ot linux ... and the list discussions are more than interesting, but one thing seems clear to me: to upgrade from one version (8.0->9.0-9.1, etc.,etc.) seems to cause more than necessary problems. My opinion (MNTBHO): When I was in the Windows environment I learned quite early to not to try to upgrade a version. Instead of trying to upgrade I just bought a new harddrive and loaded the OS on that. Such it was time consuming to reload all the software, drivers, etc... but I found it was less time consuming than the problems I always seems to have doing it the other way. (AND- if I had problems with the new system I always had the old one to fll back on until I got bugs in the new one out.) ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/