On Monday 25 February 2002 03:54 pm, you wrote: As of this writing, I'm downloading the Mandrake 8.2 beta 3 isos; is there anybody who wants me to upload copies to some local ftp host? Early reports are that 8.2 appears to be pretty stable at this point, although with still some bugs and glitches; for details, see http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=1913 I'd caution against upgrading if you're using root RAID (as I am); that's apparently a tricky/risk proposition at this point, but probably not a bad idea for a new installation. Anybody else using root RAID, btw? It used to be bleeding edge, but both the current Mandrake and (as I understand it) recent Red Hat versions make it easy -- it's just a matter of creating a non-RAID boot partition, creating the RAID (your choice of flavors; I'm using RAID-5) partition, a file system on it, and assigning it as the / partitition. -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------