You might have to build a more recent kernel. You should be able to mount that boot floppy as an MS-DOS filesystem and replace the "linux" file on it. The Adaptec driver has had a number of changes since 1.3.43 . Bruce -- Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> A campaigner for Clinton and against Censorship. Toy Story: $183M and counting. At $184M it will beat the #1 movie of 1995.