this is the first I've seen of this thread, but if you're talking about RedHat, the i386 ISOs contain the binary (compiled and ready to run) program packages. You need to install using this disk. the SRPM ISOs contain _source_ (hence the S in SRPM) packages. You would uses these if you wanted to examine the source code for a program or wanted to rebuild some of the packages with different compile options or something like that. generally a srpm contains the original source tarball from the software's author, patches (some from RedHat, sometimes some from others), and a spec file (instructions for RPM on how to build the binary (i386) version of the package. Allan Shaw wrote: > You stated easy question but Im unclear as of the difference after reading > that you have it installed. Im am try to install the srpms.iso from cd > Images I burned (ISO) after the download and it-- after review doesnt have > the bootdisk.img or the images file on disk 1. So I thought that this file > may not be COMPATIBLE. I have Gigabyte KT400 board AMD XP 2100 Processor and > Samsung CD R/W.So Im now downloading the I386 .iso is this neccessary -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list