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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:51:17 +0000
From: Cushie 
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> Cushie, excuse my asking but why are you trying to boot a new
> (unknown) system from USB rather than CD ?
> (I'm a great believer in 'KISS')
> 
> -- jjj

Josiah, I symathise with your comments too!

 > Choosing the 'manual' partition option takes you to the
 > next screen which shows your current drive partitions.
 > (including the Windows one).
 > Set one as 'swap', the other as '/', tick the re-format box
 > for both the Linux partitions and that was it.

Yes fine when you have those options, I did not have any tabs that wee 
not 'greyed out' and GpartEd kept telling me there was no '/' partition 
when I had one selected. Just no go!  Anyway deleting the partitions 
(P/magic) got it going



 >
 > Cushie, excuse my asking but why are you trying to boot a new
 > (unknown) system from USB rather than CD ?

Well thats easy, I have a spare external drive for my laptop.  I think 
an installed system allows a much more flexible and faster setup, 
updates and additional programs etc, all my info stored is on the HDD. 
If I want to boot Linux I just plug the USB in and it should boot first. 
Well, thats the theory if I ever get it working.  ( I chose that route 
as I have been constantly modifying and editing the Bootloader on my 
Desk PC and still it won't boot on the default)
Good luck with your Wifi, that's my next project if I ever get that far.
Cheers,
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