Thanks for the thought-filled and insightful replies! Getting such detailed descriptions that go below the surface is just the thing to speed my 'education.'
I found the Zip drive HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html#toc9) It was in with the "mini" HOWTOs and that's why I missed it before. I appreciate the help, and if I can ever make it to one of the meetings, there's a round of Sam Adams (or better yet the local brew) in it for everyone ;0) Future topic: If I have time this weekend I'm going to try getting my wireless network (802.11b PC card and router) operational for Linux at home. (Should make downloading and installing packages at home *a lot* easier, since I was originally advised (by the SuSE manual) to make a very small boot partition under MacOS. Had I known it would be about the only convenient way of transferring files between OSs I would have made it at least 100MB, but oh well. This is still a problem because of the lack of HFS+ support under Linux, so the boot partition is standard HFS) I expect that all of the pieces are here on my system, I just need to turn stuff on and get things in the right places. Part of what confuses me is trying to deal with both PCMCIA card stuff and wireless networking stuff. SuSE has built in ways of handling Apple's own AirPort card, and so maybe they've also got a of the PC card route, we'll see. I found a linux driver project for my specific card (Orinoco Gold), so that's nice. I'm hoping it will be pretty painless after doing a little more reading. Then I'll be back asking the 'panel of experts' some more questions about this topic. Final point: A big intimidation factor was relieved for me recently when a friend showed me the text editor 'pico' which was already installed on my system. *Much* less intimidating than vi! Its almost too easy. Now I'm not nearly so nervous about accidentally screwing up configuration files. Any other votes for or against pico? (no wars, please :0) Thanks again, --Michael -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Michael L. Bovee, Ph.D. Research Assistant University of Vermont Department of Biochemistry B403 Given Building 89 Beaumont Av. Burlington, VT 05405-0068 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biochem.uvm.edu http://www.uvm.edu/~mbovee Lab 802-656-0345 FAX 802-862-8229 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
