Hi Colin, - snip - > > # echo append="ide-scsi" /etc/lilo.conf > > You're missing a '>>', and as I said that isn't what you want in this > case anyway (since you probably don't want to make that the last line of > lilo.conf). # echo append="ide-scsi" >> /etc/lilo.conf '>>' (double) or '>' (single) ??? I just want to learn new command line. Usually I type # locate xxx > /tmp/output.txt to copy all output to /tmp/output.txt file B.R. Stephen