Yeah, that switch was mighty useful when setting up RAID on my server. Now that lilo deals with RAID on the boot partitions it's a bit easier...but I digress.

My point was that all of that stage is is a chrooted environment, so it's going to be 'vi /mnt/etc/lilo.conf', vi /mnt/etc/fstab.conf' etc, which is easy enough once you can wrap your head around the concept of chroot, but for people coming from a DOS/Win background that's not always easy. The feeling is similar to that experienced trying to navigate around The Big Dig in Boston...