"I'd like to do the same thing, but I don't have a floppy drive in my server. So the SYSLINUX boot idea won't work." No, no. To make the bootable cd, you need a bootable floppy. The way bootable CD's work is that they "pretend" to be the floppy drive during the boot process by taking a particular set of blocks off the CD and setting that up as a sort of virtual floppy drive. So you need to make a bootable floppy (you can even do a 2.88 meg floppy if you've got one) image and write that to the cdrom. Here are the steps: 1. Make bootable Linux floppy with SYSLINUX (saves you room over lilo and lets you change things easier when and if your kernel changes) 2. create a directory that's going to be the root of your cdrom 3. make an isofs with mkisofs -b /path/to/boot/image (look up the options) 4. write the cdrom. Once you get a floppy image, you can mount it as a loopback device and work with it, but the BIOS will choke if it's not EXACTLY the same size as a floppy, so the best thing to do is just dd one over. I made my own install cd this way and it works grrreat. Jer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org