Thanks... both of the suggestions worked....

now... a new problem (and most likely the wrong forum, woohoo!)

everytime I try to access the mnt directory, comp locks up (both from the poor Latitude CPi, and a spiffy old 2.0ghz Celeron)

any ideas why that might be? (think it might be the fact ive no floppy drive in it at the time?)

that's one of those things i miss from the ole days of thinkin' i only had 64megs of ram to work with... default GUI had a very easy to find kill button.... haven't found it in X though