Try this site for information on how to do this: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html There are also commercial utilities like System Commander. tjm tmollica@sb.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .