Thanks for the reply about /home. I swapped out the 9.04 disk with one
of 8.04. This comes up and works great with firebird. So either I have
something not configured right, more than likely, or something with that
version of Ubuntu. I may down load an ISO of 9.10 and copy over the 9.04
disk and see what happens there. If I do that, I will experiment with
partitioning and create /home and just split the disk, I think it is
about 130 GB so I should have plenty for each.