Thanks, everyone, for the great suggestions! We got lucky and were able to borrow a boot disk from a friend of ours and it worked well enough that we got the system up and running. I've made a list of all the suggestions and will be keeping them on hand in case of further emergencies, though -- we seem to have them every now and again :) Kriselda _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk