On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, alan@patriot.net wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, alan@patriot.net 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 don't doubt that, that's why I suggested the netinstall image, because it can go on a CD and is small enough not to take too long. > 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. But how did you burn the DVDs? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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