Dave, good point, and with that point, as you might guess, comes a question...

Backups:
On my old system, I had two hard drives install, on a Win98 system, and used a "Clone" program to duplicate the whole drive. If a crash happened, I just pulled out the drive, and pointed the BIOS to the backup drive to activate it.

On my new system, I don't have the second hard drive, and I am not sure, but would think that any backup program for Linux should be backing up the whole partition, am I right?

I do have a CDRW on the new system, but considering that Linux is about 2.x gig of used drive space, it won't all fit on a single CD - approximately 700 meg, I think.

One other point is, when you consider a backup strategy, how does one recover the backup - recall that I am a newbie in the Linux World - so options and programs used for a backup/recovery are more than welcome suggestions here

Thanks Dave, and anyone else, for any ideas/strategies...
Cuddles