The config file can be created before you use bootdisk: you may edit or generate it on any machine, than put onto bootdisk. First, create temporary etc dir somewhere, put installer.conf and other files into it. You may also create etc/profile to avoid question about language, e.g: export LANG=pl Then issue: tar cf config.tar etc/ gzip -9nf config.tar then mount bootkette, and copy the file, or put file directly with mtools mcopy config.tar.gz a:config.tgz Filename must be changed to be placed on dos filesystem. Just after booting, the bootkette system tries to mount floppy and searches for config.tgz. If it is found its contents is extracted.