Thanks, that is a really useful suggestion. Have read your HowTo and downloaded 'egnost' - will let you know how it goes! Back home, the 'pudd' transfer continues; this is no longer a backup event, rather an unnaturally fascinating exercise in extreme patience, since the transfer speed is slowing as...

Thanks very much for that - 'egnost' is new to me, and looks to be seriously useful now that EXT4 is with us. For those confused by Grub, there is a fairly simple solution called 'SuperGrubDisk' available at: http://www.supergrubdisk.org Yes, it is possible to boot a regular live CD, loop mount the ...

@ Sylvander - looks like a root shell prompt from Ping! Not used Ping, so cannot be too specific. Worth trying 'Help (cr)', just in case.... Then try 'man man (cr)' to see if there is a manual installed. If so, try 'man -k backup (cr)' , 'man -k partition (cr)' etc etc, to see if there is any onlin...

Thanks indeed! NOP413 works exceptionally well on our P3-700 laptop with 256M RAM, love the enhancements, and the big bonus is that (finally, after days of struggling) we have WiFi with full WPA encryption working under Linux. No luck with Puppy412, Xubuntu, Mint, eLive, OzOS, OpenGeu, Fluxbuntu or ...