So, you have several options listed above. Go and play ;-)
Oh, yeah. One option I forgot. Take disk out of laptop. There are (cheap) adapters to connect those tiny laptop IDE hard drives to normal IDE controller in your desktop.
If you have adapter, or you can borrow it from somewhere, or decide to buy it, from there on, you have two options.
1) copy install CDs to hard drive, return disk back into laptop, and boot with "linux askmethod" and choose "hard drive" when it asks you for installation method. make sure not to destroy partition that contains copy of install CDs during installation ;-)
2) simply install with disk connected to your desktop. you might need to boot off rescue CD once you return disk into laptop and edit grub.conf (or lilo.conf), fstab and/or modprobe.conf. possibly also reinstall boot loader (grub or lilo) and/or rebuild initrd image. if your hard disk is recognized as /dev/hda when in your laptop, and if you place it as primary master (/dev/hda) in your desktop, it should simply boot without need to touch anything once placed into laptop (provided IDE controller in your laptop isn't something very exotic).
To copy insatll CDs to disk, copy first CD as-is. The remaining three CDs, copy only content of Fedora/RPM directory into existing Fedora/RPM directory (from copy of first disk). Installation is smart enough to detect that all RPMs are present in single directory (and not split on multiple CDs). If you have install DVD, it is even simpler. Just copy hole thing to disk as-is.
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
