hello plug. well you helped me get ssh to work across networks so that now I can build an LFS OS on another computer as opposed to on another partition or onto a virtual machine. I installed Debian as the host OS to build LFS on. All is well except it falls asleep after five minutes and I can't compile things if it is going to fall asleep in the middle of the build. So I googled for a solution and found: --- In the */etc/default/grub*, modify the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to look like this: $ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=acpi=off apm=off --- Well that is good except on the debian system it reads: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" I think the 'quiet' merely tells it not to print any boot text so I can just delete it but I am unsure. However, if I want to keep it quiet would I make it like so: $ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" acpi=off apm=off ??????????? :-)~MIKE~(-: