Took about an hour or so to download and you can either copy the installer to other machines to install or make a bootable DVD, partition, or thumb drive . . .there are several pages on the net that give the details on how. On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:01 PM, cat soul wrote: > curious about download times and smoothness...ease of burning it to DVD for later use... > ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil