Hi Ermanno,
I am ready to delete my windows 2000 partition on my desktop and go full blown linux on that machine.
I plan to go with the FTP install. How can I make sure I get the latest distro with the latest KDE and Gnome Desktops and all the security patches.
I am not completely sure, what exactly you are looking for. Let's assume, you want to use OS X on your PB and maybe additional debain stuff via Fink. That makes perfectly sense :-) In addition you would like to get rid of W2K on your PC and install Linux instead. Right? You mentioned SuSE, so it's not RetHat, Debian, or linux-from-scratch (lfs). Consequently you won't you apt, apt-get, ... but Yast instead. You could do an FTP-install of SuSE with all security patches and reasonablely new packages. However, note that some non-free (in terms of beer) packages are missing in the FTP-install. You can start without them. Here's the recipe: (I'm not at my SuSE box here, so I cook from memory, small recipe variations are possible) - Download SuSE 9.0 boot-CD iso-image (~22 MB). Use your Powerbook. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/boot/boot.iso Maybe you want to use an italian mirror, like: ftp://ftp.uniroma2.it/Linux/suse/pub/suse/i386/9.0/boot/boot.iso ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/SuSE/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.0/ boot.iso - Burn that iso image on CD. You 'Disk Utility' in /Applications/Utilities. Look for something like 'Burn ISO image'. - Boot your PC from this CD. At the boot prompt choose 'Manual Installation' - Find out which Ethernet-card you have and load the appropriate kernel module. - Start Installation and choose FTP install. (I assume you can use DHCP, which makes things easier) - enter 'ftp.uniroma2.it' as mirror and 'Linux/suse/pub/suse/i386/9.0' as folder or 'ftp.unina.it' as mirror and 'pub/linux/distributions/SuSE/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.0' as folder - If everything works fine, you'll end up with a dialog, where you can change your install settings, like Timezone, mouse, software, partitioning, ... - You probably would like to change the partitions of your disk(s) (remove NTFS, etc...) - After installation is ready, you can apply updates/patches. Select as source the same as for installing, but drop the /i386/9.0 from the URL, e.g. 'ftp://ftp.uniroma2.it/Linux/suse/pub/suse' - You can install/remove additional software in yast2 -> software install. ----------------------------- I hope this quick guideline helps and hopefully it's more or less correct. good luck Markus