I've got a PCMCIA Ethernet card I could maybe use. Thanks, I'll try to look into that. If anyone has any advice or links that will help, feel free to pass them on! :) From: Does it have a network connection? The distros allow you to created a boot disk with network support and do the install across the network connection. I have never done this myself but it is mentioned all over the place. Alan On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Scott Henderson wrote: I've acquired a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT laptop and would like to install Linux on it... but it isn't capable of booting to a CD, and the CD and floppy drives fit into the same, single bay. So I can use one or the other, not both (don't have a connector cable). How can I 1) create a install disk to begin an install, and 2) swap out to the CD and have it recognized to run the install? Or am I going at this wrong? How can I install to such a machine? Could I perhaps install a minimal system on a floppy, boot to it, set up the hd, copy the minimal system to the hd, then boot with the CD in and run the install? Thanks!!