Hello KGIII & Brickwizard. So good to get most everything working so far. I intend to go home to dial-up tomorrow and get that going. I wonder if this Dell has an internal modem.
I don't know what 'build-essential' means, yet late last night I think I saw something about essentials being addressed. Is there some way to verify that the DVD player will play movies? I tested a CD and that worked, yet couldn't get any of the DVDs I could find in this house to play. As far as I know when I get the dial-up going and if the DVD is working I'm good to go. I've been trying to make this happen for 3 yrs now. I'm elated, Thank You All!!!
As always all suggestions appreciated. I'll look into 'build-essential'.