William T Wilson wrote: ... > Other than that, the plan is fairly sound. Make a minimal Debian system, > put it in some free space *on its own partition*, set lilo to boot that > new kernel, and reboot. You don't really need to chroot anywhere during > the process. ... This sounds good to me. I think adding a new harddisk would be nice; he could just install the Debian on the new drive and set lilo up. Oki