Many thanks for the ideas, input and opinions. Souleman, your examples were definitely worth my time, so i do appreciate you taking your time to give them thanks x a x, for the 'ease' comparison Mandrake and RedHat, i need 'easy'. thanks cross for the get-going tut site. thanks detox for the info on the general manual, i have three big ones, each with disks that are probably totally out of date.

Xenon, 'scuse please, i wrote down your OpenBSD note then forgot to say 'thanx'... thanx!