Nick and others, Thanks for your kind assistance as usual.
> Oh and isn't it a little brutal to experiment on an unknown (to you) > distro for a client??? Agreed. That's why I'll use a distro I know for some bits of the system. I just need to get in to this Gentoo thing sooner rather than later if that's what I'm doing. As I said, many of you guys seem to like the Gentoo option. When I was in Australia I got into Debian and Redhat because that's what the locals seemed to like... but I'm in Chch now. :) Cheers Don