Thanks for all your help. A coherent system is starting to "emerge".
speaking of which: when I try to emerge xorg it gags when it has to go online to download a distfile. This has got me hopping back and forth between my XP and gentoo systems(forgot to compile PPP support in kernel)because emerge xorg keeps missing more distfiles. Is there a list of all files(dependencies?) needed for each package to save all this back and forth? -mw __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list