> > Can you take a pic of the connector of the CDROM? I know there are > different styles. I should have an extra Dell and HP style, if, in fact, > they are different. yay! my thinkpad boots again. the cd worked well enough to run knoppix and fix the mbr, and i chrooted into lucid (nice ring to that), ran apt-get update, and apt-get install lubuntu-desktop. so thanks anyway wynn, it's better now. i presume it was netboot that gave me NetworkManager, now, as one would expect from lubuntu, i've replaced that with wicd. way better. issue remaining: the lubuntu lxde login is fine, but none of the linux virtual terminals is available with a getty. with /etc/inittab retired, i'd be grateful for a clue how to get those. anyone? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101111/673ecf93/attachment.htm