Hi, I'm trying to make real barebone SuSE installation that I could use for various purposes - for adding particular applications. First step to overcome is to add things for partition to be bootable. I guess rescue system already includes everything else except kernel and maybe grub. I've done this: umount /disks/rescue2 wget ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/pub/SuSE/i386/9.2/boot/rescue mv rescue rescue.comp uncompress -d -S .comp -f rescue cat rescue > /dev/hda7 mount /disks/rescue2 ls -l /disks/rescue2 Now I get filesystem. /boot directory is empty - I guess that is normal for Suse. But now I wonder: - what do I have to add so I can boot into partition (kernel, grub, ...) and what configuration has to be performed ? - can I install packages to that partition with rpm? How ? - how to easily duplicate image to other computers/disks ? I can post my saga to somewhere if anyone is interested, but don't know where is appopriate place for this Suse minimal-rescue install story ? Thanks in advance, regards, Rob.