On debian-boot, you wrote: > Please read "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" > <URL:http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html> Heresy. :) The boot-floppies installer is worse than what he describes, as it does build:: some dependency $(MAKE) foo $(MAKE) bar $(MAKE) baz Which tends to mean that if the build fails halfway through, you have to go through all the steps again, which on a <100MHz PowerMac isn't fun. Mk