and there's always netboot. just download and boot the netboot linux&initrd pair. easy. the netboot installer is a tad annoying in that the questions it asks are dispersed amidst the long waits of the installation process. but it works just fine. another trick i use with netboot: install a minimal system, ie no *-desktop or other major software. keep it somewhere, tar it up if you like. later, just use it again for a new release by merely changing /etc/lsb-release (followed by apt-get update and apt-get --auto-remove dist-upgrade). this has never failed me, whereas the same trick is far more likely to fail if scads of packages are installed. (then apt-get install your favorite *-desktop or whatever) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131211/f72b2073/attachment.html>