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Hi all, In a bid to cut down the Ubuntu system installed on an old laptop, I have managed to strip it more than I had intended. I wanted to strip it down to command-line only so I could have a nice, clean system to add a lightweight GUI onto, instead of adding the lightweight GUI and then trying to remove all traces of the heavier-weight ones, and I have indeed now got a system that boots to command-line only... and that's the problem. I haven't got apt, wget, dpkg, etc. Under such circumstances I would be tempted to just say "blow it, let's re-install"... however... this machine has a broken DVD drive (and being a laptop, it isn't easy getting another one to work), it won't boot from USB (despite being a 2.8GHz P4 (so a relatively newish machine)) and I don't have a compatible floppy drive to put in the DVD drive bay. I'm not sure I can be arsed to set up a netboot server (unless anyone has a foolproof guide with explicitly clear instructions), so I can only see that fixing it is the way forth. Any thoughts? Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html