On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 11:01 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: ... > That ASSuMEs that you have a network card that does not require > either PCMCIA or USB! > > What I guess I am headed for is how to set up a hard drive that will > be 'prepartitiones'? And the stuff sitting on a partition on the end > I can afford to 'loose' (4Gb worth?). > > But USB would be nice! I believe you could pre-partition and copy the CDs to the HD using a Live-CD distro like Knoppix or Ubuntu-live and do a hard-disk install. Haven't done a HD install in long enough that the details are hazy - there might be some restrictions on installing on the disk containing the files. Phil