Hi Uwe, I guess the hwcfg- files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/ are created during the yast2 session that starts right after the first boot into the installed system. Is there a way to re-create them manually by some call to yast2, i.e., the call that autoyast uses? Or is this some internal algorithm of autoyast? My problem are diskless clients that need hwcfg-files for their hardware (like sound or firewire) and I don't know how to create them. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *