-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck and all, no, sbm doesn't need to be installed on the laptop's hd. You'd install it on your debian system, and use it to generate bootable media. The documentation that comes with sbm will explain this in more detail. I'd suggest installing it, and you can always purge it if you find for some reason it won't do what you need it to do. Greg On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:52:15PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Greg, > > The sbm package is available in Debian, but I gather it needs to be installed on > the laptop's HD to use it. I must be missing something here. I'm not > understanding how it can help me, since to put it on the laptop's HD, > I'd need to have Linux running on it already, in which case I wouldn't > need it. > > But thanks for the info about the machine. > > Chuck - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknCstgACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyArrwCgnlMnGhBvGMRqsGFOjs/HBmi/ ZTwAoMUwfqOh0pkvCjaau1p81T/JXcXo =8OmP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----