This question is probably on the wrong list, debian-user would have been more appropriate. These days you want splashy or plymouth. The latter is the way of the future because it uses kernel mode setting. If you really want bootsplash, see snapshots.debian.net: http://snapshot.debian.net/package/bootsplash s.d.n is not currently working as desired, but that will be fixed when snapshot.debian.org is setup. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise