For ADP's purposes, anaconda 8.0, even with a customized kickstart file, lacked several features, including: * simplified messages for the user * completely automatic partitioning on a variety of disk configurations * support for tape restore Under the terms of the GPL, we're publishing the changes which we made to anaconda. See ftp://208.252.96.251/Linux/patches/anaconda-8.0 . The file: ftp://208.252.96.251/Linux/patches/anaconda-8.0/README describes what we did. The file: ftp://208.252.96.251/Linux/patches/anaconda-8.0/anaconda-8.0-adp-1.patch.tar.bz2 is a tarball which contains the actual patches. --Seth Alford Seth_Alford@xxxxxxx