greetings, well, didn't think of all that. thanks. will give it a shot and se what I can do. Brian. > > Since you're using ks.cfg, I'll guess that your distro uses > Anaconda. > Install the anaconda and anaconda-runtime RPMs. mount the CD and use cp > -a to copy the contents to your HDD. Replace the RPM packages you find > there with the modified ones. You speak of CD in the singular. RH7 had > two. If you only have one, cd to /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime type: > "./genhdlist <path_to_installation_tree>". If you have two Cd's you'll > need to copy both of them to the HDD. The genhdlist command would > look like > this: "./genhdlist <path1> <path2> --withnumbers". If you really want to > go all the way, and you're sure that the version of Anaconda is the same > for SME and RH7.0, you could download the Anaconda packages from the same > place you got the kernel packages. They have the Speakup keymap built in. > The buildinstall command in the /usr/lib/\anaconda-runtime directory will > make a completely new installation tree. Since you use kickstart, this > might not be very important to you. Now for the CD. You can use the > strings command on the raw CD image to extract the commandline of the > mkisofs command that was used to create them. Pipe to grep mkisofs. > You'll want to edit out the version number such as 1.13. If you have any > questions, call or write. > > > > > HTH.