yeah, youz guyz with your off topic banter.......anyways, i was about as frustrated as all hell earlier. Not only is my wife deciding NOT to put out, but apparently her computer wouldn't put out either. If you didn't know already, my cd burner is on the fritz (thanks RadioShack), and I was having difficulty burning a copy of knoppix to cd. well, i had her bring home her work laptop (with a burner, but without a good burning prog on it) so i could burn this OS before I go KA-razy in here. Well, right off the bat, she doesn't get admin privys on her laptop, so i had to try several different burning progs before i found a few that would install without admin rights, and then.......IT'S....IT'S.....ALIVE!!!!!

So, now i am cruising along with my linux OS and didn't really do a whole lot yet, cause i amnot ready to "customize" everything, but if there are any pointers before i start tomorrow morning, let me know.....

and another thing, like i was asking earlier, do i need to do any kind of HDD maint (like partitioning and starting a new file system or WTF??? I am really lost when it comes to file systems, they're prob not that complicated, i am just making rocket science out of it.) IOT save files from programs that i run under linux? i have an NTFS file system for XP, and i didn't think that linux liked ntfs.

MY GOD, i am just so happy to be out from underneath that whole fiasco (which is the part nobody but me and my 3yr old girl saw) of not being able to DO anything without access to a CD-R drive!!!!!!!! thanks.....eric

also grunt and gore: i am running xp and have over 1GB Ram, so i am good there.....and learning the basics of CLI is hard coming from the catholic way of life windows presents. and crash (the movie) is okay, i could really only watch it once and the Johnny Cash movie seems okay, i just don't really get into movies like that. See Boondock Saints, great flick!!!