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I was hoping to introduce myself with a helpful solution to someone else's problem, but being a bit of a newbie I guess that was a little optimistic. So I hope you won't mind if instead I start with a request for help - I've got a feeling it should be a relatively simple one. I've got this old computer, a 486 with a 2GB drive and 16 megs of memory. At the moment it's running Windows95 but I want to install linux on it. However I don't want to change the windows setup at all. I think I need one of the "minimal" distributions so I've been trying Peanut and Vectorlinux. I haven't had much luck - Linux installs OK but Xwindows is completely missing. I think I've worked out that the reason I'm having a problem is that the fat16 partition on windows doesn't recognise the long filename for the xwindows bz2 image because it's too long. So I need to install from cd but I can't "get at" the cd drive from linux. I tried "mount /mnt/cdrom" and got "/mnt/cdrom not in fstab". I noticed that at bootup hdb was registered as a cd drive so I also tried /dev/hdb but this didn't work either. Any suggestions? __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.