Dotan Cohen wrote: > I wrote to the debian-laptop list instead. As a Debian-based distro, > the debian folks have no problem with Ubuntu questions, so long as > it's not total newbie stuff. Now you've got me curious. I may have to install Ubuntu just for the fun of it...or maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment. :-) >> FWIW, the mount commands I used in RHELv4 worked just well on F8. Don't >> think I have a vmware Ubuntu system. > > I really appreciate all the help in figuring out what to do with this > thing. Although I've yet to get the drive properly mounted, I've > learned a lot about the mount command and filesystem encoding in > general. I appreciate the time that you've taken to try things out, > and to guide me. I'm sure Tod enjoyed it as much as I did. FWIW, I'm downloading 7.1 now and will see about getting it running later. But, I'm being coerced into having a pre New Year's Eve drink tonight so I wouldn't hold my breath. :-)