Thank you all. I stumbled on the correct sequence. After I did install-mbr first, and THEN zcat the boot.img.gz to the usb it booted from the CD. The way it's laid out in the installation guide, it looks like you can install the boot image files and then if it doesn't boot, fix it by doing install-mbr. This did NOT work. However, the reverse did work.
I have a laptop running Etch hooked up, but as someone correctly guessed I do NOT have admin rights on the XP desktop machine. So far, it's installing smoothly. I did guided partitioning and took the whole hard disk they installed for me and put home on a separate partition. THANK YOU. I've got to try that goodbye microsoft link next time. Looks interesting. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
