<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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.</blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>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.<br>
<br>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?<br>
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