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Grant Sewell wrote: > 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. > Just did a bit more searching and found this... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071212175340AAB981Y It's not related to your model but it appears that Sony say that VAIO's don't support USB booting. That's really poor, I mean considering how much a VAIO costs compared to other laptops, you'd think that they'd put support in there. The netbooting method isn't too bad anyway, I managed to netbook an Ubuntu Live CD the other week on an old laptop. IIRC I used bits from this page too (for the netboot files)... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot 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