> If "the Lloyder" wants another install idea I've always had good success > by doing minimum floppy disk installs and using apt-get to download > further packages.
I'd have to agree with this. It's extremely easy to do. You can also download a bunch of stuff onto a (spare) partition first, too. Check out something like: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive Of course, that only works if you have a dos partition or a linux partition already. Andrew.