Ok, just go to www.debian.org and follow the instructions on how to install. In that html file ( I recommend you read hte whole thing, since you are not familiar with Linux ), in chapter 5, there is a list of base files you need. Just follow instructions and you should be fine. This is all a bit different from MS world, since there all you do to install things is double-click. Here you might need to do some work manually, especially later, when installing packages like X and configuring your system for XWindows. Or kernel configuration, for that matter. But don't worry, before you get there you'll get to know Linux.
Typically, when you want to install something, you download the source code and do 'make install'. However, dselect/apt take care of that part for you, when you are dealing with .deb packages (prepackaged programs). But if you are downloading and installing .tar.gz files (tar is tape archive, gz is gzip, sort of like .zip files in Windows), you will need to go through 'make' procedure. Andrew. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.