On Thursday, January 01, 2004 02:13 pm, Michael Shaw wrote:

> Thank you for the feedback.  It seems to me that in order to check for all
> the things you suggest it implys I have a functioning linux systems to to
> perform them.  A functioning linux system is what I don't have.  Am I
> missing something?
 
I must've missed something - I thought all you were missing was the GUI.  Do 
you not have  a working console mode display?