Hi Jeff,
I just realized that I assumed you had a SCSI based CDROM. I have had SCSI on the brain lately trying to get mine working and that hurdle is over. If you have an IDE based CDROM (most likely) forget everything I said about SCSI. In any case try the MCDX support under the CDROM entry in modconf. It will probably work. I do not believe you need to worry about kernel building. By the way, I used UNIX for many years (engineer but NO SYSADMIN) And when I started playing with debian linux, I put in many 20+ hour sessions, and know where you are coming from... John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com