Great idea. Strip it down to the bare essentials, kernel/boot/cdrom. Get that working, then look at what other people are doing. Theres no magic formula either, put it together anyway that works for you. I've been wanting to try some of this. Very interesting potential for instant "appliance". Search "cdrom boot" on sourceforge.net, lots of projects, one that looks fun is: movix http://movix.sourceforge.net/ I've learned a TON of stuff doing something similiar with my Gateway Internet Appliance boxes that only has a CompactFlash for boot. Software can get so crufty its good to get down to basics sometime. I've now got my Gateway boxes scripted to NFS chroot over to another box and fire up RH8.0. Or they can boot standalone and be an appliance(picture slideshow is one idea I like.) _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list