> Thanks so much for your help Sebyte (and Colin). Unfortunately, neither > method seems to work for me. Colin's method looks like it's gonna work > but then panics for some reason. Sebyte's method looks good up until I > try to mount my filesystem --- there's nothing useful in /dev :-( No > hda-anything, just "cdroms", "floppy", "null", and about 20 other misc > things but no HDs... what now, Doc? > > Sean
All I can suggest is to download and burn the iso I already mentioned. I just checked and the ramdisk created when I execute a shell includes /dev/hda /dev/hda1 . . . /dev/hda20 so mounting my root partition is a snip. Sorry I can't be more help. sebyte