Ken --

You might consider doing some of the experimental work in VMware, and thereby get away from hardware limitations, have fallbacks, etc.  You could presumably run both a Redhat VM and a Debian VM on your Redhat host, and then use converter to "write down" whichever you preferred to the host hardware. 

--Joe Atzberger

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Ken Lomax <ken@lomax.gen.nz> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. It would be useful except that I dont have
the hardware available for this.

I am trying to dechiper the french document and am hoping that my
experience of previous install will allow me to work through a document
in french when I cant read/speak french. However it looks the most
useful lead at the moment

Many thanks to all.

Regards
Ken