i asked about installing FC3 on a CD-less laptop on the fedora list just a while ago, and i was given the following link: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html which looks like it will do just what i want. (the laptop is, in fact, running FC2 at the moment, so i appear to be good to go.) my only question is, that web page talks strictly about doing an upgrade. i would like to totally repartition the drive and use LVM, which is not the way it's set up now. the question is, once i use grub to get the initial kernel and initrd, and i select an NFS install, and i repartition and start the install, is there no further use for all of the isolinux/ stuff i copied onto the hard drive on the laptop? that is, am i safe in assuming that the install process is done with all of the isolinux/ stuff so that the repartitioning won't hurt anything? that *seems* to be the case, but i'd rather know for sure. thanks. rday