Hi Dr A Olowofoyeku wrote: ... ( taking 2 hours and eating 100 mb of my hard disk space ) Looks like instead of "make bootstrap " we should be using "make bootstrap-lean" GCC says this deletes files after they are no longer needed. Since I've already used "make bootstrap" and "make install" ran "make bootstrap-lean" to see what would happen df reports 900049 1k blocks before. and 859745 blocks after thus freeing 45,304 k in the process Thanks, Russ <russwhit@mind.net>