One more idea... Debian still has a floppy based netboot. You need 5 floppies to get up and running, and then it's all network based. You could try changing the installers sources.list to Ubuntu's sources...no idea if that will work. Or you could get enough of Debain installed and follow the Installation from another Disto instructions, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromAnotherDistro?highlight=%28install%29, or easiest of all just stick with Debian. :) Assuming you can boot the laptop from floppy, going with Debain instead of Ubuntu might be your best bet. :) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned