Hi, I also posted a reply to your CDROM problem, to get you a little further, but it has not shown up yet.
Anyway use the "more" command followed by the file name. This will not help you with "dmesg" though, unless you output it to a file, or pipe the output directly to "more"... more foo.txt would display the file "foo.txt", one page at a time, using space bar to advance to next page. dmesg > foo.txt would put the output from dmesg into foo.txt dmesg | more would take the output of "dmesg" and pipe it directly into "more" Be careful with typos until you know what you are doing. The "rm" command is like "del". The "mv" command is line "rename", and the "cp" is like "copy". To shutdown your system properly, execute "shutdown -h now" as root, and WAIT until it displays "system halted". Failure to do so can corrupt your disk, as the kernel caches disk writes. Important log files are in the /var/log directory. I think "dmesg" just prints out the syslog file. Also if you want to use the floppy, you can't just switch floppies without unmounting them, keep that in mind for later. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com