It seems to work to delete all the entries in Base and then use the mkickstart to generate the kickstart file. mkickstart will list all the packages that you currently have loaded. This gives you a great degree of control over what actually gets loaded. You will still have to modify the ks.cfg file to ensure it has all the settings you need. Mine left out some of the partitions creation commands. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get genhdlist working and I will really be going! Mike I left the Base entry there along with the 1 in front of it. It looks something like this: 1 Base { } Didn't want to burn another CD just to see if I could delete it altogether. Michael Barsalou barjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx