Back in the day Debian had a network installer that was two or three floppies. The floppies were enough to boot and get connected to the internet, then the rest of the installer and packages would be downloaded. This was back in 1996-1999 time frame, and I remember doing an install or two over a dial up connection. Talk about being ahead of the times... ;) In the age of broadband this seems like the way to go. The exception being LiveCDs/DVDs that allow you to demo the OS and software without making changes. Downloading the entire install media is only needed if you're doing an offline install or in a time crunch on a slower connection and can't wait for downloads. Nobody needs everything that is on the physical install media, and in most cases you can't install everything on the media due to package conflicts. Network install and only downloading the packages needed seems to be a far superior solution for operating systems and software distributed over the internet to me. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com