Hi.. The past couple of days I wrote a perl script that does all of this.. Basically you build a machine how you want -- with the right packages and what not.. Then from another host, you run my script--it then ssh's to your pre-built machine, gets the names of all the rpms installed on it, copies those rpms from a directory, copies some kickstart files, isolinux files, and RedHat/base directory, then run's mkisofs and gives you your cd image. My mkisofs looks like this : mkisofs -r -J -T -v -V "RHEL/3 i386" -A "RHEL/3 i386" -c isolinux/boot.cat -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o isos/RHEL3AS-i386-disc1.iso temp_distro/ under temp_distro i have the following directories: custom isolinux ksfiles RedHat Custom is for specifialy files/packages/scripts/etc. ksfiles are for kickstart files, isolinux is a modified copy of what is in isolinux on the RH iso, and RedHat contains base/ and RPMS/. James James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394