Hmm, much trickier without a CD burner. Yes, you can download the iso from http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/ but that is of marginal use without a burner. You can do a network install but again I think you'd need to burn at least one image to a cd...
How big is your hard drive? You may be able to do a peicemeal upgrade by downloading the packages and then doing a peicemeal upgrade by copying packages back and forth between partitions. The restriction of needing to download with Windows with no CD burner is definitely an interesting problem. If you've got a big hard drive, there are ways to mount iso's as virtual CD's ( eg mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso ) so if you download them to the harddrive, you can upgrade on a packagewise basis, even though it may be better to find someone with a burner to burn you some distro disks, perhaps a Linux User's Group? I'm guessing from your email that you probably not in the US, are you actually in Morocco? In the US, there's the option of bookstores at colleges that often sell linux distro CDs for the cost of burning them. Not sure if foreign colleges would have a similiar thing. Let me know if this helps at all, or if you want to know more about these options. --Ryan
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