Dear List: I just had to have a little whinge about Linux. James totally failed to get Debian running this week, and gave up on Redhat 5.2 when it would only give 640 x 480, even after declaring the chipset etc. 6.1 seem sto be working at last. Meanwhile I tried Monkey Linux as it shares DOS filesystem and is less likely to leave me in the dark. It unarjed OK but fell over with kernel panic and could not see the HDD which I admit was an MFM drive I had dissassembled, oiled and reformatted. OK, so I tried again with a pentium 1 machine with IDE drive. Same problem! Hero James then noticed that hda was missing and found the IDE cable in the wrong place on the mother board. Did not bother DOS! Linux seems very literal about things. Anyway, I am still getting over the shock of being able to look at files in XTREE or Midnight Commander. Bye Kali http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/
