Just a note here about floppy disks that y'all probably know, but caught me off-guard. If you use the graphical mechanisms (nautilus) for copying files to a floppy disk, the files will not be transferred if you reboot the system from the Desktop->LogOut menu item. I think that this could be done logically: if (disk is mounted && runlevel == 6) sync floppy disk unmount floppy Right now, if you don't "unmount" the floppy, your files will not actually be on the disk. Sean