On SLES9sp3 it appears that XIncludes dont work if instmode=cd. the y2log shows that profile loading goes through a multi-pass attempt where it fails one or more times, but some logic finds instmode=cd and for EACH profile autoyast re-mounts the cd/dvd, finds the profile, then unmounts the cd/dvd. So, if an XInclude exists in the profile file, the XML parser appears to not have the same logic of attempting to remount the cd/dvd. And by the time the parser is reading the XML, autoyast has already unmounted the cd/dvd and the file can't be referenced. I am pretty sure i tried using xincludes of both forms: file:///cf/xi-blah.xml and /cf/xi-blah.xml Is there something i'm missing or a known functional workaround? thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdowdy@ucar.edu - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/