Quote Originally Posted by dmizer
yeah ... burners are super cheap if you don't have to put them in a laptop (i thought i had mentioned that i was working with a laptop, but apparently not).

i'm not too fond of buying a distro either. and as far as using a friends computer, the problem comes in with not being able to read japanese well enough to write an iso, and my friends are far from computer literate enough to do it for me.

i'm not completely incapable of attempting to come up with alternatives, and i do look at other possible solutions before defering to posting in a forum for support.
Well that does shed some light on it. Using a friend's system my not be out of the question, but I don't want to belabor that point in painful detail if you don't plan on doing it No harm in asking in the forum for support, just didn't understand the limitations that you were fighting and it seemed like there was a pretty cheap way to make lots of stuff easire, not just this one CD issue.

I'm not ruling out that someone can guide you to installing a distro without making a boot CD or floppy, but I don't know how to do it.