On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:40:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > >>[Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > >> > >>This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers > >>with floppy drives in them. > >> > > > >OK. Why isn't there a grub-stick package to dd onto a UBS stick? > > Excellent question. The Ubuntu LiveCD is adequate to the task, > though. (I tried the "standard" Lenny LiveCD, but after searching > for my CD drive on sda, it turned my screen a weird pixelated grey.)
GRML 0.9 has grub on it too. It takes a lot longer to dl an .iso than a floppy image. Hard to fit a standard CD in a shirt pocket. Presumably if you installed Debian, you'll have the installation media. That can be booted and you can chroot to your root drive to fix problems. I did that on Potato, Sarge, Etch... Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
