> 2. Converted to an rpm with alien > 3. cpio2rpm kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc32-smp.rpm | cpio -i > 4. Copied all the files by hand to where they needed to go Why did you do this? You could have downloaded the debian package and installed that with "dpkg -i ...". -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/