Tony Vroon wrote: > Basically, you want syslinux. You may not realize this yet, but you do.
I did realise it, so I was heading in the right direction! I even used it, but something wasn't right as it didn't work. > Finnix has a finnix-thumbdrive command that you can use, once you have > booted from CD first. Thanks, that's exactly what i think I'm after. If I can find an install script which should "just work" I can confirm I have everything else right (BIOS settings etc). After that I can try again with the Ubuntu howto's I've found knowing that at least the principle should work. > NOTE: finnix-thumbdrive will fully erase the contents of the drive in > the process. Thanks for the warning (especially in case others are reading this) but I have a spare 2GB USB stick to play with, so no problem there. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
