Hi Well I'm not a total newbie as I had Suse on this machine for a few years and now moved to ubuntu. I'm pleasantly surprised with ubuntu even though I'm not hip with gnome. So here is my question - when I run synaptic to install packages it asks for the hoary disk to be inserted in the cdrom. I insert disk and it shows up on the desktop but synaptic behaves like its not inserted and fails to install my favorite programs. How do I get synaptic to install packages? Yes I know, I'm probably missing something simple. Thanks - pt