Thanks! Sounds a little too fancy for me to figure out, but I'll see if I can't find more on that. Lorry Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >there's two possibilities: >1. you have two computers, which share an Internet connection >2. your distribuition allows you to switch to a virtual console >(alt-f<number>); and telnet to an IRC server, while the install is going on. > >I've known people who browsed the web while installing, using a virtual >console, telnet, and more/less. :) > >Carl Soderstrom >