Downloaded the latest from cvs - it worked much better. Thanks Jens. Kept strictly to the scripts and to slink to see what happens. Not using packages, images or any of the md5 options produced a disk tree. However, problems with CODENAME towards the end. Will work on this later today. Phil. Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 I sell Debian GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz