Hello. I'd like to thank Shawn F. @ Real-Time for helping get the burn capability on by CD RW under Linux (the command "cdrecord -scanbus" got my up and running), and lots of folks re: the zip drive issue. I adlibbed some instructions you folks gave me earlier with something I found at the SuSE website. SuSE kernels from versions 2.2.0 and up don't use "ppa" they use "parport". So I did the following: (it wasn't intentional or pretty, but I finally got it to work). After loading and unloading Debian (I got a screenful of error messages), I daisy-chained the printer and the zip drive to the sole parallel port, and reinstalled SuSE, configured it as a dual boot machiine (I got Win2k on the other partition). AFter getting all the stuff on, I went in as root, and at teh command prompt entered STEP 1 modprobe imm modprobe parport (instead of modprobe ppa) modprobe vfat STEP 2 mkdir /mnt/zip100.0 STEP 3 added following line to /etc/fstab (used Vim): /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100.0 vfat noauto,user 0 0 STEP 4 mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100.0 I now have access to the stuff on my Zip drive. My printe works like I want, too. I can burn CDs. I'm happy once again. Now for being productive with it all. Thanks again. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list