I created a new boot cd that took almost 7 min to boot while the other took almost 30 min with a blue screen ; the difference between them is that the first one was created with an additional 30 megs of ram disk while the second only 10 megs. Why does boot cd creates a ram disk???? Ray > What I found is that booting from the CD on my TiBook, where I created > the disk, was not overly long - however, booting a couple of different > flavors of iMac with the disc resulted in very long boot times, or the > blue screen that Ray describes. > > JEL