Nicolas, >> As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not >> Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work >> does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though! >> >> So I think this process becomes simpler. >> >> I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a cp -r on / to >> the >> destination USB drive, correct? > > cp -a is better 'man cp' -a Same as -pPR options. Preserves structure and attributes of files but not directory structure. Nice, thank you, I did not think about this option. Best, ML