Thanks Jim, Your suggestions were more helpful than most of the material I found on the web. Please forgive sending in html. I'm using juno webmail and don't know how to make it send plain text. I'll welcome any help with this. I think the only barrier to using my floppy now is this error: can't find dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab . fstab looks like this:/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,noauto,users,kudzu,sync 0 0 To all who replied to my post: Thank you very much! I appreciate the help. Dick ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!