Part 1 Back in the DOS days I always liked to change my background color to blue and my foreground color to white. I did a "more" on "installer.log.1" the background turned blue and the foreground color turned white. I did a "ctrl-c" to get out of "more" and it stayed. At first I was sort of supprised and shocked, I thought I'd done something wrong. I logged out and in and it stayed. I did a "shutdown -r now" just to be sure something wasn't messed up. The screen came back, black background and white foreground, why did I restart the computer damb! I'm just sort of curious as to why it would change? guess 1 the file is more then just a log file guess 2 the file is just a log file and I fat fingered something guess 3 the file is just a log file but it has and attribute in the header that changes the color. Now that I'm 44 I need to have the change to make it easier to see the screen :-p I'm sure it's just an attribute change in a "conf" file somewhere. If I can't figure out how to make the color change I'll ask. Part 2 When my machine starts I get the prompt to login as follows. "debian login: eth0: media 10baset, silicon revision4" I'm thinking it's a timing thing because this old laptop is, well old. It would seam the final message about "eth0" coming up. just pops in after the "debian login:" prompt is displayed. <in a spooky voice> Or is something odd going on...? </in a spooky voice> Anyone encounter this before? Sam. _______________________________________________ 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