Jerry Feldman writes: > Also, Your email is getting stripped. I had to go to the > archives. The attachments is being saved as attachment.pl. > The problem is that your email program is sending the body > as a binary attachment: yeah, i know this happens and some folk find it a problem. my email program is my own, but the culprit is perl's Sendmail.pm, which formerly wrote the main message as an ascii thingy, but in the current version writes Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text i fumbled through the source code but couldn't figure exactly where (or why) it was doing this. Gregory Boyce writes: > If you're doing a net install, the installer will > automatically check for sub-directories named "disc1", > "disc2", etc. > You can save yourself a lot of grief by just mounting the > ISO images directly to those directories. You can skip > burning the CDs, and you won't have to worry about > changing Discs. didn't know that - sounds good, will try it on the next install. tnx for the tip. dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave #2 brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) jdm@moylan.info www.moylan.info