Baldyeti's 2 lines worked. This is the first time that the 'insmod' command didn't return an error. That is why I was using losetup.

I am still puzzled about why it worked, but that is for later study. The listing shows that cloop.o was not found at one point, but already loaded at another.

<<shrug>>

Thanks muches.... now on with the scripts.

BillS