Thanks for the good information but I am a little confused. Samuel Thibault quotes me and writes: > Martin McCormick, le Mon 02 Apr 2012 20:26:39 -0500, a e'crit : > > debian-6.0.4-kfreebsd-i386-CD-1.iso > > Which is kfreebsd, not linux. So it's not suprising that the script > failed, as it's meant to deal with linux images only. I wondered about all that but am slightly confused. Where does debian-6.0.4-kfreebsd fit in to the picture? I use FreeBSD unix all day at work and like it but the i386 images for it come from the FreeBSD mirrors and FreeBSD is at version 9.0 now. Anyway, I will try all this again with the correct image. Many thanks.