[jambutty]

I didn’t actually time it but I guess about 5 minutes is about right. It just seemed like forever and two days. Time only flies when you are enjoying yourself.

How do you connect to the net then?

Well I get a bit of string and thoroughly wet it and plug one end into the phone socket and the other end into a USB port on my computer. Sadly that doesn’t work so I do it the regular way – phone socket – router – USB port and ran the BT CD to set things up.

Rightly or wrongly I reasoned that as I was booting up on a CD that couldn’t be written to there was no point in setting up an Internet connection and mounting the second hard drive or doing anything else that would require something to be written to the OS. I have no doubt that had I installed Linux to hard drive it would have worked fine.

I will leave Linux on my mental back burner for now and if it comes to pass that my current computer dies on me, rather than going for (apologies for swearing) Vista - I will go down the Linux Road.

In the meantime I’ll stick with what I have.

Thanks for all the help. It is much appreciated.