Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list loaded properly and then let it start installing. That way, I could pre-build the package list(s) for systems to help stream-line the installation. Just a thought...I have them once in awhile. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User