We have a beta release and I have a way to burn multiple USBs on my mac. When it boots it works pretty well! It even connects to a Jabber server for collaboration. People who get it to boot will be impressed. The bad news is the current beta release is not working at all with the "Boot Helper" CD The error is Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck! bash: no job control in this shell. This is a shame because giving people a CD is much easier then walking them through changing their BIOS. Also at the wild (as evidenced by the YMCA and the Gardner School) many computers (about 50% of the Y and the entire computer lab at the Gardner) can't be made to boot from a USB. With luck the laptops people will be carrying at the conference will be newer and boot from USBs. So I'm debating whether I burn both SoaS1 and SoaS2 so we have something for people who need to use a CD? Any hope of getting the boot helper fixed? The other thing that would be really excellent for Friday would be a working Virtual Box install. If we got one working we could burn it onto a couple of sticks and just pass it around to the Mac users. The final thing on my wish list is a way to show off eBooks. Great work and thanks to all who have worked so hard. We have made tremendous progress! Cheers, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax