Hi, This one is maybe a bit different. I recently took in a tenant in\to my spare room. He brought with him his almost brand new VISTA based computer. Of course, I had to show him the folly of his ways and demonstrated my home network of 10.3 through 11.2A0 machines including some with VirtualBox running XP. He was impressed that I could play movies from my 2.5TB archive multimedia machine in my livingroom while on my machine in my bedroom and using X and xterm, could control that and other machines as if I was at their console. He was having transferring files from his Vista laptop to/from his VIsta desktop in the same room. <grin>. OK, I sold him on SuSE 11.1 when it came out. Here's the rub, his machine has NO DVD or CD. It can use a USB stick, can FTP programs and I got him a copy of a Windoze version of xterm so he could interact with my machines, BUT, this doesn't solve the problem of HOW to get SuSE onto HIS MACHINE in lieu of Vista. I know there used to be a program that ran under Doze that would install Linux/SuSE on a machine while running Doze then allow booting Linux to complete the install. If I remember right, it allowed a dual boot install. I have looked for this program, googled every combination I could think of, gone to the SuSE forum and checked out the Install forums and the only thing I come up with seems to be something for 10.3 which does not leave me where I want to be. I really do not want Doze running in my house, connected to my network even though I feel relatively safe that he can't hurt my equipment because of his poor choice of OS, but here is an opportunity to convert someone from Doze to a real OS, who want s to do it, but whose hardware is severely challanged (by the lack of a DVD/CD) and which does not have a provision for one of my old IDE drives. So, is there such a program that will work for 11.x? Is it possible to install to an external USB drive on one of my machines, then boot from that drive by plugging in the external USB drive onto his machine and using it kinda like a DVD to effect a network install to his internal hard drive? Any suggestions? Thanks Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org