On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 18:11 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > you can build the replacement on a different machine and swap it (or > the drives) into place when everything works That doesn't always work if the two machines have different enough hardware that the install creates a different initrd file. Of course you can make a new initrd file. Whichever method you take depends on your skillset and patience. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.