1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Bit Shift (bitshift) http://rainbowdash.net/bitshift http://rainbowdash.net/notice/1700246 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/6766" class="url" title="Toksyuryel"><span class="fn nickname">toksyuryel</span></a></span> I'm pretty sure I can get something to boot from a CD once I get my old portable DVD drive hooked up again. But then I have a second problem in that this machine never came with a Windows install disc, so I have to hope it's already GPT-partitioned - no current distro I know of works correctly with both a DOS-style partition table and a UEFI bootloader (whereas Windows does, so it's entirely possible that's the out-of-box configuration of this system); I'm not yet willing to totally blow away the copy of Windows on here without some way of reinstalling it once the disk's reformatted.