Thanks for all the assistance regarding my hardware compatibility relative to Fedora. As I have been asked to drop in my hardware list, I thought I might as well do so. I suppose at a glance it can be estimated that that 99% of it is OK. ems Storage: Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive Disk Drive IBM-DTLA -305030 SCSI Disk Device (30 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100) Optical Drive LG CD-ROM CRD-8521B (52x CD-ROM) Optical Drive LG CD-RW CED-8080B (8x/4x/32x CD-RW) Input: Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Mouse Logitech USB WheelMouse Network: Modem Lucent Venus Modem PnP Peripherals: Printer Canon S200SP USB Device Logitech USB WheelMouse USB Device USB Printing Support BIOS Properties: Vendor Award Software, Inc. Version ASUS A7V-133 ACPI BIOS Revision 1002A-1 Release Date 02/05/2001 Size 256 KB Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk,