It seemed complicated, but was simple, actually. I now boot from both the mmc and internal memory, but as mentioned there doesn't seem to be any significant speed up. Still waiting for noob instructions for enabling multiblock read/write. Patti PS: I forgot to mention that if the user only uses Linux on their laptops/desktops, then we can dispense with the fat16 partition, can't we? And what're the advantages to using fsck as opposed to e2fsck, the latter of which I use on my SuSE systems... PPS: In reference to the mmc wear associated with ext2/ext3 - I think mmc is so cheap that one could "clone" their mmc card to a backup mmc card periodically (with an mmc card reader and g4l) and use ext3 to avoid frustrating (unrecognized) file corruptions. With this in mind, could you indicate the command to format ext3? PPPS: I also noticed that there doesn't seem to be a .bash-history file between boots - so I have to memorize the fsck disk check command and run it a LOT. I would be running fsck at least once a day...