one more question for now. from the Customization Guide, section 7.6, the Pre-installation script, there is an example of using a shell script to dynamically generate the partitioning info. but from what i read, the %pre section is read *after* the ks.cfg is parsed. so how exactly does partitioning info generated in the %pre section and placed in a text file get %include'd in the ks.cfg file proper? it seems that this is in the wrong order somehow, but i'm sure someone will clear this up for me. thanks. rday