not sure i asked this already, but if, in my %pre section, i wanted to use fdisk to partition the hard drive, i've seen two different approaches to first get access to the (IDE) hard drive: # mknod /tmp/hda # mknod /dev/hda so, 1) should i assume that there are no hard drive device files available at that point in the kickstart install? 2) which of the two device file names is the more appropriate? or will both work equally well as long as i stay consistent? rday