My loader will still not take that gz file. Flags and error and proceeds withtout it. I tried a "fuller" one, 3meg, witht he same result. It DOES take the cramf and panics. There are options in the mkcramf for setting a blocksize and skipping 512 bytes for a boot record. Of course, I do not understand what all this is doing but it should be possible to fix this. (The reason for the difference might be what is actually in the kernels. I did the knoppix hard disk install which puts up a Debian 2.4.22. Apparently, copying the CD contents literally and making that hard-disk bootable is different. No idea which is better but I have seen discouragement for using the hd-install on Knoppix forums.) _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users