The thing I wanted, and never got, was a battery powered RAM card from some outfit in Texas called Applied Engineering. You could boot to this card, like in seconds. I still want something like that. Booting from hd, even on Linux, just isn't the same as flipping a switch and having a prompt at about the same time. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org