thanks guys. my sister now has a new bjork cd. interestingly, the "hdd=ide-scsi" line was already in the menu.lst file for GRUB. all i had to do was add a script to insmod the scsi modules (modprobe and depmod rarely work for me, no matter what distro...)
we might have a new convert or two. stacy likes how "snappy" my computer is now. i think i'll wean her on mandrake one of these days... when i feel more confident and less whiny about linux... my other sister's boyfriend saw the desktop last night, realized that quake 3 was available for linux, and pretty much just snatched the redhat cd's from my hand... i'm waiting in agony for the questions tonight. on a personal note, it was very liberating to burn a cd while playing tux racer while listening to mp3's while having my mail and a mozilla window open. the most important thing, of course, was that the music didn't have to stop. i wouldn't have even dared try that in windoze, even with 2K... and tux racer only skipped when the burner was changing tracks, and it _barely_ skipped at all. my next trick is to get Thief to work under wine. if they can get Half-Life to work... has anybody had any personal experience with wine? (don't worry, i printed out the manual...) from what i read the other day, it looks like you need some kind of config file for each application, and you simply install the software just like using windoze. if thief works, on to lightwave. then i can forget i ever had windoze installed. :)
