In a message dated 4/15/00 12:25:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << I did a complete Slackware install on it (996 megs of software) >> Geeze...doesn't that sorta defeat the purpose of being able to use an old unused machine? Not too many older machines I know of come w/hd's big enough to support all the new Linux's out there...I was sorta hopin they wouldn't go the way of windows in terms of size....guess they have to do that in order to appease the masses that want everything all at once. :-( ======================================== Avenir Web's Computers Mailing List List Modes, Subscription, and General Info: Go to http://avenir.dhs.org/mailing.html List Archives: http://avenir.dhs.org/archives/ Administrative Contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Get computer help: http://avenir.dhs.org ========================================