I appreciate the links...I have about decided to begin with Lenny and go from there.

The plan is to order the disks (full set) from one of the Debian sites to get up and running and use the stable/standard distro as a starting point to tailor my environment.

I'll go look at the links, particularly the Parsix...that one hasn't come to my limited attention until now.

Any observations on that Berkeley program? Lots of ink spilled about it.

I also appreciate the coding...I'll chase down the snytax and let you know if it makes sense to me. At first blush, I don't understand the create/swap to media but maybe I will after I dig a little.

I'll also try gparted...thanks. I'll experiment with a command line edition after I get a little more familiar with the snytax/structures.

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