On Saturday 21 December 2002 10:49 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > one of the differences between debian and windows was that debian did > not turn numlock on by default while booting. Well, this is actually something that the BIOS software (usually) handles. Most of the systems I have seen to date have this feature somewhere in the BIOS setup, and AFAIK it is OS independent. Cheers Aryan