I sent a message ealier and felt I didn't explain myself enough... I have fdformat some floppies and put the files for boot floppies on them.. they also have a SunOS label to them.... As I read my man on my sparc 1+ about fdformat, I find it telling me about fdformat -d for a MS-dos label... should I have my floppies with a MS-dos label for my bootfloppy to install linux on a unix OS thats on there now... Harold