So, the reason I need symlinks working is that I'm playing with a little Linux system with it's root file system on a packet writing CDRW. I could say it would make a nifty rescue system that could be updated or an experimental device for testing systems that could damage the file system medium or a guest system so you could operate Linux on someone else's computer without affecting their hard drive. But really I just thought it would be fun. One trouble is bootstrapping. I can't boot directly to /dev/pktcdvd0, since it requires user space registration. /dev/sg0 is a character device. I can boot to /dev/scd0, but when I try to register /dev/pktcdvd0, I get a message from ioctl saying it can't be done with the device existing on a read only sytem. So I have to boot to an initial RAM disk and change root. I really don't like doing it that way. I can't free the RAM disk, probably because the actual pktcdvd0 and scd0 device files are on the RAM disk. Since busybox init can only be run by the kernel, I have to add another init layer and I can't shut down properly. So, could ioctl be hacked to let me register pktcdvd? Shouldn't this registration of a device be done in kernel space anyway? I'm guessing that pktsetup is a interim solution until you decide how to get packet writing into the main stream. Anyway, all thoughts would be appreciated. Like I said, I'm just playing around. - Jim ------------------------------------------------ Changed your e-mail? Keep your contacts! Use this free e-mail change of address service from Return Path. Register now!