thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a shell command.
when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that might be) and that the 'hard disc filesystems are mounted on /target'. i then get what looks like an ordinary prompt, each line beginning with ~# can anyone give me a list of commands i need to type? (with as much detail as possible, as i'm a relative newbie, and still trying to get to grips with this!) thanks, and all best, josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
