Simon Elliott wrote: /snip/
<thinks> Must look in the BIOS and see if I can boot from USB...
It will completely remove the Xandros install leaving nothing, but it does come with Firefox. Thunderbird can be installed via command line, "sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird". However, I'm not sure about the Vodafone part. A quick search of apt throws up a package called "gcom - Option GlobeTrotter and Vodafone datacard control tool" which may or may not be useful?
Probably what I have. Unfortunately, this is at present my only access to the internet, and if I louse-up the order of doing things, I may be back to square 1. Been offline for a while because my big box suddenly took it into its head not to work with anything NT-based, and as my usual internet software (been using it for ten or more years) runs in Win 2000 or later, getting the dongledriver onto the Eee necessitated a friend with a connection, and a crossover network cable...
So, I've an external caddy which will accommodate a drive, and my plan (if that's the word for this pious hope) was to make a bootable copy of this Xandros drive *BEFORE* burning my boats...
There's probably a HOWTO somewhere online for what you're after. If it's a debian/Ubuntu specific how to it'll work on Cruncheee which is Ubuntu based.
Which in turn, is Debian-based, no?
The BIOS should support USB booting, you might have to change the boot order or enable it but usually hitting escape or F2 or something right at the start of the boot up will do the trick :)
Best of luck..
Thanks - I'll need it.
Might have to cycle over to the Reindeer on Thursday - last bus home leaves St. Steve's before seven of the clock.