Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net> writes: > Do you have any ideas of how I can do this? I'm installing from CD on > a system that doesn't have any OS already installed. Hi Liz, Maybe. If you have a floppy drive and a spare floppy, mount /dev/fd0 /mnt amixer > /mnt/out.txt Yes, those old floppy drives are still good for something! You can hear the motor and know that the data is being saved. I've done the same thing with USB storage devices. How about your local area network? If you can somehow cajole the machine into connecting to the Internet, then you can upload the data to me using the nc utility. I'm fairly certain it is available on the .iso you are using. I'll tell you where to upload off-list. -- Chris