FYI, I suppose you already know, but he did manage to do this. I show the following dbootstrap_settings settings: KEYBD='i386/qwerty/us' DEBUG='true' DEBIAN_MIRROR_HOSTNAME='http.us.debian.org' DEBIAN_MIRROR_PATH='debian' DEBIAN_MIRROR_PORT='80' note that LANGUAGE issue isn't yet coming up because I'm not bothering with i18n until it's more ready. -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>