Thanks for the help. I suspect there's lots of info behind all those links! And it probably took you a while to figure out all the different things you needed to know to make your system work properly. To be honest, I'm considering spending my time on a different unattended install method using the software at http://unattended.sourceforge.net/. I'm already a pretty good perl programmer, and I can use my linux boxes to host the samba shares where the (shudder) Windows distros will live. There's a certain irony I like in that. Also I've written some reasonably complex cmd scripts to run on windows in the past; I thought I had sworn them off for good... I'll record all your links though. I may want to build an unattended cd as well; it would be very nice to have such a thing to take to client sites. Thanks again! Bill