I am pleased to announce that this is my first e-mail sent through the Linux operating system (Redhat 7). After a week of "small problems" and a lot of perseverence (sp?), I am now able to connect with my cable modem and Netscape (web based e-mail). The challenges I overcame (probably seem miniscule to many of you) were: Manually partitioning the Linux Drive. An out of sync monitor. configuring the monitor settings to anything other than 8 bit color and 640x480. Finding out how to setup my network card. Looking back, I don't see why it seemed so hard. Ahh well...I'm sure I'm going to hit a few more roadblocks before feeling comfortable with wiping my system clean of Win98 (my eventual goal). My next challenge is getting Windows to boot through LILO, and (probably at the same time) getting Linux to mount my Windows harddrive. Wish me luck! -Nick "Where can I buy a stuffed penguin" Stolley