A friend in the UK is keen to try Linux - I suspect he may have had ago, and, as even more of a newbie than I, had mixed success... I naturally have been boasting about my humble successes with SuSE v 5.3 and the wonders of YaST. He is flying out from London in a few days, and has asked that if he brings a HD with him, that I install SuSE plus my setup to encode audio - ie install a working Real Audio Encoder, a mixer, and some sample shell-scripts etc so that he can pop it into his nice new PC in London on his return... Even I know it can't be quite that easy - I have no idea what hard-ware he has etc. But I'm wondering if it might be possible to do an install in such a way that all he has to do on his return is to re-install the basic system, then mount the partition where I've put the audio software etc. Is this at all a practical proposition??? How might I go about it? Any suggestions would be very welcome... TIA Richard King Johannesburg - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>