Thanks to everyone for your help and explanations; I particularly would like to thank Les, Markku, and Lamar. On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:59 -0500, William Case wrote: > Thank you Lamar; > [big snip] I have found the biggest irony in learning all things Linux is that the hard things to learn are easy, while the easy things are hard. What I mean is that, a learner can find lots of information about the intricacies of the Linux OS and the hardware used by it. Most often hardest to solve are the newbie questions like the conventions regarding naming hard disks. Once you have the latter, the former easily falls in place. -- Regards Bill