<div>On 10/17/05, scot flewelling <<a href="mailto:scot.flewelling@gmail.com">scot.flewelling@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Have a look at the link on <a href="http://www.ubuntulinux.org">http://www.ubuntulinux.org</a> - there's a link on the right hand side of the page that says "ship-it free cds" Also, <a href="http://www.distrowatch.com"> http://www.distrowatch.com</a> provides similar services. Good Luck! Scot </blockquote></div> IIRC, two CDs are sent in the above method, one of them is a live CD and the other installation CD. The installation CD has only so many software/applications on it. After installing from that CD, one needs to upgrade and then install quite a lot of other applications using the internet and apt sources. I am wondering if these packages, the ones not already included in the installation CD, can also somehow be downloaded separately into CDs (from a different computer, which has a high speed internet connection) and then installed on the target computer through those CDs only. regards, ->HS