OT - which distro?

[dogscoff]

OIC.

How big is this killer Fedora7 download? Couldn't you order the DVD, get a friend with a more modern machine to transfer the installer from DVD to a huge USB flash drive or external hard drive? Might set you back a few $$$ for a stick that size or a hard dive, but it would be something you could get good use out of afterwards, even when you get a new PC.

Alternately, would it be possible to take your PC to a friend's house/ local friendly PC shop and transfer the DVD across a network?

I'd be happy to nip round with my laptop so we could transfer the files by ethernet. Just supply the return flight tickets to Ohio and I'll be right over=-)

[Baron Munchausen]

I haven't even bothered to look at how big Fedora 7 is. A single CD is a huge problem to download when you're on dialup. A DVD is unthinkable. As far as I know, all of the major distros do have 'network' install capabilities. So I suppose I could put a cheap network car in this machine and possibly install from another machine with a DVD drive. Even that might be more trouble than it's worth. Puppy Linux might be just the thing to make this machine usable for a few more years as a 'backup'. Every thing I currently own is quickly becoming obsolete as the PCI-X bus and multi-core CPUs spread. Looks like it'll be time to buy a new multi-core machine soon. Then I can run SUSE with its default multi-processor enabled kernel.