I installed another kernel and tried it and the packages are working without any problems at this point. The new kernel info is: Linux version 2.4.2 (flo@paradigm) (gcc version 3.0 20010303 (prerelease)) #8 Sun Apr 1 20:56:43 CEST 2001 Thanks. Jason Mesker Internet Tool & Die Network/Systems Admin (502) 584-8665