On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:01:22 +0100, Brian wrote in message <20120612100122.GJ30016@desktop>:
> The DVD is a USB device. She cannot boot from USB on the machine she > wishes to install Debian to. ..she can. She must put grub on her hard disk, or get e.g. the http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ on a cd, and then boot into grub. ..once in grub, Karen wants to issue:"root (" and then hit the tab button twice, to get grub's suggestions on what it can boot. If that fails, take a standard grub meny entry and strip it "down" upwards from the bottom until the "root (" and try again from there, grub 2 is more modular than legacy grub, and I don't remember if I've ever done this "in anger" from grub-2. ..tutorials etc: http://wiki.debian.org/Grub Some other distro's points of views: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120612165243.5d9b5...@celsius.lan
