According to what I have read, the Debian Superrescue CD has native PPA (apparently the name for the zip driver??) support for the zip disk (or something like that). I have booted my puter at home with tomsrtbt before... I have never run an OS from a CD. Now that you put things in perspective to me, it sounds horribly complicated. Especially since I don't have a zip drive at home (but all the computers at school do). I am attaching a list of the hardware (which I hope is readable) of the computer here (just in case it might be useful, and there are any takers). This is one of the labs with slightly different computers. I also have the feeling that this horrible complicated experiment will make me learn something, which is what I ultimately need. To learn. I'll post again later, I am already late for class!!! Maria __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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