First, I appreciate your comments. I'm sorry, but I just don't have the time or inclination to learn all those new commands. I'm sure you all see a lot of benefits to UNIX, but it's just not for me. I'm not really a big Windows guy either, I'm a Mac user, but...the laptop was free. Anyway, I went into BIOS, and set boot to CDROM, but that isn't doing anything. I don't know the commands to see the contents of the hard drive. To tell the truth, I don't know any of the commands at all. I did manage to get it to see the freebsd install disk. I don't mean to intrude on this forum, but where else can I turn? You guys are the experts.