[01:59] <InHisName> Well, I'm back, finally.   Lappy still not booting up any of the partitions.
[01:59] <pvl1> id try to get a live cd on there
[02:00] <InHisName> OK, but I suspect it will hang too.   Give me a buncha mins and I'll see........
[02:02] <pvl1> im not goin anywhere man
[02:13] <InHisName> Well, whaddya know, a live CD booted.   It says "BartPE"   It started beepin just before showing the windows logo.   3 fast beeps, pause and repeat over and over.  I have a CMD window open.    I could try Ubuntu 8.04 live CD.
[02:39] <InHisName> My Lappy didn't like trying to boot an Ubuntu 64bit live CD.   Trying PCLinuxOS 2007 CD.   32bit machines are like that.
[03:25] <InHisName> One CD had a looping filesystem error and dropped to terminal simple mode.   Other CD got further, but still got hung up.   Last few lines were:   starting udev -- welcome PCLinuxOS 2007 --- something kernel parameters -- setting up clock --- no more text.
[03:31] <pvl1> dou have usb drive
[03:33] <InHisName> I got several memory sticks.   Lappy has USB jack.
[04:07] <InHisName> ǝuoʎɹǝʌǝ ,ƃuıuɹoɯ pooƃ
[05:04] <pvl1> InHisName live usb it
[05:45] <InHisName> not ever done that yet.      To be continued, Sun night