Steve: Thanks for the pointers. What I am trying to do is get the client WITH the HDD to behave as I want it to after I remove the HDD. That means it boots locallly from a local filesystem and then executes server's programs locally by getting them via NFS. I'm also making it a DHCP client. Once I pare down the client's filesystem I'll make an image of that and see if it can be loaded . I'll let you know how it goes. Grey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list