joey@gumdrop:~/debian/packages/debian-installer/kernel-splitter>dpkg --info debs/kernel-image-* dpkg-deb: failed in buffer_read(fd): info_spew: Bad file descriptor joey@gumdrop:~/debian/packages/debian-installer/kernel-splitter>ls debs CVS/ kernel-image-2.2.14_gumdrop.2_i386.deb@ kernel-image-2.4.0_di1_i386.deb@ Ok, I realize now that it takes one at a time, but does the error message have to be so amusing? :-) -- see shy jo