I could be wrong, and this may not be possible, but if you stripe the lowest machine down and then make the bin image and then distribute that and add drivers to each machine as needed it should solve the one problem, however i dont know what i say ab the id0 and id1 problem. good luck. Dan - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/