I made my first tar file just a few minutes ago! I wanted to put the new kernel on the other machine too because from what I've read the 3.x.x version of the kernel does all sorts of nice things. One of those nice things is that it automatically defragments now. What other nice things have you discovered about it? Anyways, there i go off on another tangent....As I was saying, what I did is combined the three files together (with another with instructions to install it) with tar and emailed it to myself with the command: tar cjf 3.1.4.tar.zip * So let's open this up to discussion. If you don't think that was the best way to do it let's hear some constructive criticism. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: