Thank you. That helps a lot. My understanding is that most of the image is wasted and what the CDROM is doing is getting just enough information to know that the CD is bootable and that the kernel should run next. Tim Chase writes: >You likely need to use the "dd" command. If you have a boot >floppy you want to use, you can put it in the drive and do > >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/images/boot.img bs=1440k count=1 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list