Maybe it could be a combination of two things. I have a tar ball I keep around of an old development environment. When I need a new kernel for this old environment I chroot into it, compile, and then move the kernel and modules to our test environment. For you, this test environment could be vmware or a dual boot OS. Something like that maybe? Jolynn -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/