have you tried using the image isolinux uses? it's just a thought but it might work. cause I managed to install slack 10 here from the cd which makes me wonder also if the boot image is mungged somehow -- ... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. -- Mark Twain Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/