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Rob Beard wrote: > 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 Thanks for the link, Rob. I will have a look at this. Even though I don't really want to go down the netboot route if I can get away with it, it still looks like an interested project. I may have a go anyway. The lappy is a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT 915M. Specs: *http://tinyurl.com/5w9vh9* 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