How do I get mkisofs to preserve the full path from the current directory, instead of just throwing all the files in the next set of subdirectories together? for instance: if I have ~/music/oggs, ~/music/mp3s, ~/music/misc1, ..., ~/music/miscN; and I only want to put ~/music/oggs and ~/music/mp3s on the iso; specifying it like: mkisofs -JR -o /var/tmp/foo.iso ~/music/mp3s ~/music/oggs will throw the contents of those two dirs together; whereas I want them to be separate dirs at the root of the filesystem. I could do 'mkisofs -JR -o foo.iso ~/music' and then write a really long list to exclude those dirs that I don't want, using the --exclude-list option; but in some cases it's easier to say what you want, rather than what you *don't* want. anyone have any experience with this? how did you get around the problem? Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700