Okay, you can end this thread now! I got up to woody and all is great. Wanna guess what was needed... to install debconf. Once I had debconf installed it took care of X and all was good. It made my Xwrapper.config and made the /etc/X symlink. But thanks for all of your help! (I nearly had to do it all the hard way) -- Patrick Mauro pmauro@engr.uvic.ca Computer Engineering, University of Victoria http://www.mauro.nu/patrick/