> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall >> sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This >> took a while<ggrrr>. > > Wouldn't it have been easier to download the netinstall or businesscard > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite old) computer can boot _only_ from hard drive or CD, not from any other apparatus. I have done a _lot_ of checking on the BIOS, trust me!
I explored the possibility of putting a netinstall and boot.img on a CD, while making the CD bootable. Although I had grabbed a netinstall.iso and a boot.img, my research led me to the conviction that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was way beyond my meager capabilities. > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) Great .sig! Best wishes, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan There are many good Impeachment sites; one of the best is: www.waifllc.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]