Hi, I'm afraid that I am still fairly new to Linux, so please forgive my ignorance if I ask an annoying question. Also, I have tried to search the archives for this mail list but the redhat site always claims that it unavailable when I try to search so I can't be sure that someone else has already struggled with this problems. The first problem is that the Add/Remove Applications facility does not appear to work. It runs, checks the packages I have installed, allows me to select new ones to install, instructs me as to which discs I will need, I then hit okay and it returns the following "Error installing packages There was an error installing packages. Exiting." And that is it. It does not matter what packages I pick, the response is always the same. The discs are fine - certainly I had no problems installing from them in the first place and I can manually install applications from them but I would like to add the development tools (I need to compile some programmes) but can't add them. Any ideas? Also, another thing that has been confusing me is the whole PCMCIA / Network cards stuff. I have it working for now, but from what I can tell during boot up is that the system tries to initiate network card before the PCMCIA and therefore claims that the card (eth0) cannot be found. Can anyone point me to some information regarding these types of issues so I can gain a better understanding of what is going on? I am running the FC1 on a Dell Inspiron 4000 (PII Celeron 700, 256MB RAM with a Xircom 10/100 56K Modem). I have the GNOME desktop installed. Everything is from the ISO's downloaded a week ago. I have to say, after coming from 14 years of MSDOS/Windows, I am pretty impressed with this stuff overall! Brian
