okay, I got DHCP working.... kinda. It isn't being offered a lease and I don't have a clue how to even google on this one. This is how I got DHCP to work I read in the debian manual (online) to make sure a line was in /etc/network/interfaces. That line is iface eth0 inet dhcp so I copy the line and put up top. That doesn't change anything so I spend the rest of the trying to get dhcp to work. Finally I figure I should investigate ..../interfaces more closely and look at what I found at the bottom of the script: (without the hash marks) #iface eth0 inet dhcp # address 10.10.10.2 # netmask 255.0.0.0 # network address.0 # broadcast 10.255.255.255 # gateway ... .... so I copied that first line and put the hash marks in and the next time I rebooted dhcp tried to get a lease! I was so happy until the lease was denied. So please, tell me what I need to do no or point me in the right direction. earlier today.... I got apt-get working again so I ran it for the desired dhcp tool. At the end of the download it tells me that: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but..... I tried fixing it by running 'apt-get install e2fsprogs' but that resulted in the same error........ ohhhhhhh! That is one of the files being updated so it must be disabled. Cool. How do I update apt.conf? I attempted to merely place the suggested line at the end but that didn't help. I then moved that line to the middle but the machine keeps telling that I put 'Extra junk at end of file. I get it.... I need the semi-colon at the end. Okay.... it all installed noow I guess do the windows fix..... restart the machine! bmike1@4[Documents]$ sudo apt-get install dhcp3-client Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debianutils dhcp3-common dhcp3-server e2fslibs e2fsprogs initscripts libc6 libc6-dev locales lsb-base sysv-rc Suggested packages: e2fsck-static sysv-rc-conf The following packages will be REMOVED: raidtools2 The following NEW packages will be installed: dhcp3-client lsb-base The following packages will be upgraded debianutils dhcp3-common dhcp3-server e2fslibs e2fsprogs initscripts libc6 libc6-dev locales sysv-rc 10 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1093 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/13.7MB of archives. After unpacking 3852kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs bmike1@4[Documents]$ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss