On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Thanks in advance for any and all advice. > > Pretty off topic but go build a PE disk, that is your > best bet > > http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ > > You'll need your original OS media. > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks Nate! Unfortunately, this is no longer an option as these days when you buy a Windows PC you do not get any installation media, merely a recovery CD/DVD. Yes, you are reading this right - you are paying money for the OS but you ain't getting no disks with it! And as the case happens to be with this particular machine I don't even have that "recovery" disk. Boris.