Following my numerous emails in my efforts to restore my machine I would like to thank everybody who respondd to my questions . I have managed to salvage my data but not my system since I did a total reinstallation. Anything less that that would not work. However compared to my experience with Debian 1.1 which was the first distribution I installed debian 2.0 is greatly susperior I installed all the sysem (i chose the sceintific suggestion from th initial configuration) in less than two hours.
Thanks again George ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------