I've read about an approach of using split to split a large tar.gz file then create iso images from the pieces afterwards, so it should be possible to do split -b 650000000 KNOPPIX_v3.2-2003-07-26-EN-speakup.iso and get xaa and xab back. After that perhaps running xaa and xab back through mkissofs and making iso images of both of them would be the way to go. If mkissofs doesn't barf and if it barfed probably the xab would be where it might happen. Another possibility and I think safer provided you have the disk space would be to mount the iso image; tar the whole contents and directory structure remember to use p in tar options, then split up large tar.gz file with split and then use mkisofs to make iso images then use cdrecord to record those onto multiple CD's. -- ----- GNU Linux a real operating system with a clu ICQ: 204427655