thank you all for your help.

Recently, ver 10 came out for scalix and it includes all the 'third party' pieces like JDK and Tomcat.

So now I am reading up on kickstart to rebuild this system and start clean.

I have copied all of my changed files (I hope!!) onto my notebook, and am doing the one mod i need for kickstart (original was a CD install, this time FTP). So I will know very shortly if this will all work! I see in the anaconda file the instructions for partitioning my hard drive, which is very good as I did not clearly write down what I did!

Another fun filled day!