I'm looking at some other alternatives, but actually being able to at least boot up and then put in another disk (with program and to log files) isn't that bad of a prospect. I changed it to -static on compile and that worked great. I then added -s and that chopped if from 1.2mb to 308K in size. So far so goood! Tom (with tomsrtbt) wrote back very promptly on all my issues. It's very cool to have such help with this open source movement. I'd hate to wait on some techie from MS to come back with a reply. (Like I could do this with MS-shaftware. Ha!) --- Bradley Miller At 10:19 PM 11/15/00 -0600, mike neuliep wrote: >Brad, maybe you should compile your program statically? Since that'll be >the only program running I bet you could squeeze it on a bootroot >distribution floppy. Alternatives would be to get a larger flash device >for your laptop and then boot off of that. > > Mike