i'm partway thru writing an explanation of what happens during installation, from the boot floppy thru the ram disk, init, loader and into anaconda. currently, it's up to where anaconda is finally invoked, so it's not finished, but if anyone wants a copy, i'm always interested in feedback. email offline. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies, Durham NC Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training "The finance department has analyzed your computing needs and decided to give you a 286 PC. That should be sufficient for the 3D-rendering you need to do. Besides, you many times are you going to do 3D-rendering in your career?" "Uh ... once, if I hurry."