I don't know if anyone shares this sentiment, but I consider installing from burnt ISO CDROMs to be a slow process. I'm wondering if it is possible to use askmethod with a USB IDE drive. I noticed that the USB devices were detected during the FC3 install boot up, but that they didn't appear in the disk druid partition list, for example. As it is right now, users have to download the ISOs, then burn disks, then verify disks, then install from them. This is a slow process if one is using a 4x CDRW disk in a slow CDROM drive. What I'd like to be able to do is download the ISOs to an external USB drive and then use askmethod to tell anaconda that the ISOs are on the USB drive. This would save the effort of burning the CDROMs and performing a media check on each one. It would also install a lot faster from the USB drive than from the CDROM. I think this, with kickstart, would be a great way to install and/or upgrade a number of non networked computers quickly. One could also put a bunch of things on the external drive, such as the source RPMs, various rescue tools currently not on the FC boot disk, etc. I found askmethod nfs to be a bit quirky. If it detects the network card right off and the server has simple access, ie no gateways, etc, then it works pretty well. Throw a stubborn network card into the mix and a gateway or two and I'm less enthusiastic about it. BTW: I don't think my computer, a laptop, can boot directly from a USB device. The BIOS doesn't give the user that option. I'd still have to do the initial boot from a CDROM.