Is there some documentation about what happens to populate /dev when you boot the install disk in rescue mode and it automatically mounts an installed system and suggests that you chroot to /mnt/sysimage? With Centos 3.x you could do the mounts yourself in cases where it wouldn't work automatically and end up looking approximately the same. With 4.x, after the chroot, /dev appears to be empty unless the automatic mount worked. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com