Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > I tried compiling a vanilla kernel on FC3...didn't work. I'm no expert, > but it seems like all those patches Redhat made to their FC kernels are > necessary. Do you mean as a general principle, or for this particular Dell computer? In my experience no patch added by Redhat or Fedora has ever been necessary. I imagine your .config file is missing something - perhaps the ext2 or ext3 option? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland