1. for fips you need a complete and empty dos 2. create a dos-startup disk and put fips on it (have you read it's read.me-file? it's in there alltogether). 3. boot yoru laptop from the bootdisk that's the only way fips is going to work savely! also ahve a look at www.mobilix.org for install details and guides. -- slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!