> also if anyone can make available a *permanent* distribution of bootx > in netatalk format (as a .tar.gz) i think i should be able to modify
What do you mean by 'permanent'? BootX isn't under active development as far as I know, so what you have should be sufficient (didn't someone provide macbinary files already). That said, I can create a .tar.gz archive of the unpacked BootX .sit for you, with all the bogus old kernels that ship with it. It's up to you to sort out what you need, then. Michael