I have made progress on apt-get and othe info. I installed the system from Knoppix-3.4, it is 2.6.5 kernel and testing packages. Is there a way to boot the machine to run level 3 only (no kdm etc.), in Mandrake I used to use (in /etc/inittab) id:3:initdefault: at top and it does not work the same way.. Any ideas? -ishwar