Thanks everyone for helping me out! Another quick question, when i boot, i see all kinds of cdrom drives being probed at. like mcd, aztcd, sony, gscd etc. I have looked at my /lib/modules, and the only cdrom module avail. is sbpcd.o. The probing of the cdroms delays the booting of debian to 2 to 3 min. Does it mean i have recompile the kernel to remove these things? Any help is deeply appreciated. Andre....