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Grant Sewell wrote: <snip> > 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? > Well my first thought would have been USB booting until I noticed you couldn't USB boot. Maybe you could try this? http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478 Assuming you have another working system then it shouldn't be too hard to boot the Debian netinst installer. Otherwise might be a long shot but maybe you could take the hard disk out, stick it in a desktop machine and get a basic text based installation of Debian booting and work from that? What make laptop is it? Maybe between us all we can figure out how to USB boot the thing. Rob -- 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