Lamar Owen wrote: >> 1. Why isn't [livecd-iso-to-disk] available on CentOS? > It's in EPEL. Apologies. I see now that it didn't install for other reasons: ----------------------------- [tim at alfred ~]$ sudo yum install livecd-iso-to-disk Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/metalink | 24 kB 00:00 * base: mirror.euserv.net * epel: mirror.i3d.net * extras: it.centos.contactlab.it * rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu * updates: mirrors.prometeus.net epel | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db | 2.0 MB 00:03 Error: xz compression not available ----------------------------- I'm not sure what this means, or what I can do about it? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland