James,

Thank you very very much for your excellent reply. I am anxious to try out your new HOWTO
to see if I can remaster knoppix 3.7. I follow the HOWTO's verbatim but somehow the author
seems to assume that I know something that I don't OR the software moves too far ahead
of the documents. INCIDENTLY, I had always been taught (no, beat over the head) to DOCUMENT
MY WORK! He meant comments in the code AND written documents. Hehehe. I think we
Linux users need to keep it up.

I would be happy to add to your HOWTO or make a seperate HOWTO concerning custom
kernels. My RH Fedora RC2 custom kernels all run flawlessly. They have been extremely
effective. Just so you know, I prefer to run a monolithic kernel using only what I need.
My Knoppix kernel is also monolithic but includes just about everything I think I might
run into out on the "field". I should probably use the modules for the field.

For my Fedora Kernel, I have about 4-5 kernels for various tasks. One of them has the CLOOP
patch and works just fine. The others have things that I only occassionaly need so I can reboot
and choose one of them. Mainly, I tweat them out as much as possible! I like to run lean
and mean.

I will look over your HOWTO and try to remaster (using stock kernels for now) and after that,
maybe we could collaborate! Let me know what you think.

Again, thank you thank you!

Joel