Ok there is probably an easy answer to this. How do make a Linux filesystem from being local mounted and modified by someone using a floppy boot/root disk? Is it possible? I know this has one possible drawback, if you forget the password in, you're screwed. Just curious, Brian "Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass, Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow, Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie." john thrum