I would like to have a SINGLE thumb-drive that would let me boot the following: DOS - various flavors for flashing BIOS (need to be able to update the image with bios files) breakin debian install - various flavors knoppix Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Seagate SeaTools SystemRescueCD Memtest86 burnin Sometimes there is no network connection, but it would be nice to be able to chain boot into PXELINUX and have a menu there as well. The ability to copy any sort of boot image as a file to boot and have a simple config file as the only thing to update. I once made a key to boot debian installer with syslinux - I think updating only requires changin the iso image. ( I was able to duplicate this key easily (but slowly) with a dd copy ). Seems likely that someone has already crafted such a device - wondering if someone has such a key (minus the images) that I could borrow a gzipped dd copy image? Or at least point me in the right direction to spend my limited time building my own. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail Karl at xtronics.com Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 Never ruin an apology with an excuse. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------