Anthony Anson wrote:
Thanks for that - can I back up onto a USB flash stick? And, will the OS install over the Xandros thing, leaving (say) Thunderbird, Firefox and the Vodafone interface?
<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? 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.
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..
-Si