Unfortunatly two thing mitigate against the approach you recommended. 1). I don't have the fedora core 1 2). You lost me after you said boot the FC 1 installation. I'm very new to Linux (we run a windows shop here) but I am evaluating it for possible deployment in some areas of our system. I currently have a RedHat enterprise workstation 3 box running doing some monitoring of switches etc, and I was planning to play with fedora as a way to use the old box, and to see if it would hold up to what I need or if I need the Workstation or Server Packages. Tim Holmes IT Manager Medina Christian Academy, Inc. A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14