how I set up disks for lguest dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1048576 count=whatever losetup /dev/loop0 somefile mke2fs somefile (or whatever fs you want) mount -t ext2 somefile /mnt populate /mnt umount /mnt losetup -d /dev/loop0 now you have a file to use as a block for lguest. ron