On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The other machines you're talking about, do they too have SATA DVD-ROM > drives ? If yes, then try out with USB install image, provided it is > supported by your $1000 PC. Most modern boxes after around 2005 do. The machines that they do install fine on are Dell Optiplex 755's and yes, they too have SATA optical drives. I will download and install the 2009.08*.img. I will give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!