Chris,

Booting isn't the problem, it is not having the image of the machine's
software that is the problem.  I can boot DOS off my camera's Flash drive.
I can almost install Windows, but I didn't think to bring my collection of
MSDN CDs with me on holiday.  That'll teach me.

On 18/04/2008, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  There is no data on the machine, I tried to install the image from
> SourceForge and it was too big...  I didn't keep any on the machine's
> internal drive in the first place, there simply isn't room.
>
> I got a version of Ubuntu working from a Flash card, but it was very slow,
> and almost every dialogue box fails to fit on the screen.   And it won't
> play MP3s or DIVXs...
>
> And they called me crazy for dissing the Air / Portegé / all
> subnotebooks...
>
> I know this may or may not help, but will it not boot from an external
> source if you hook up USB CD/DVD drive?
>



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Brian Butterworth
http://www.ukfree.tv

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