moin, moin, I really hated to do it as downtime sucks, but I had a cd burner I wanted to install. Thus I actually shutdown one of my machines for a few minutes last night. Really sucked to have so much total downtime for my computers, especially this early in the year! Less than 5 min down, however, then after it came back up I started looking for software that would take care of the copies. About 15 or 20 minutes later my debian install disk was reproducing, so the downtime was worth it :). Sylvie, OTOH, just blue screened again. Funny that she never has downtime when using the Linux boxen... ciao, der.hans :) -- # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.YourCompanyHere.net ;-) # C'est la Net - der.hans