Comment 229 for bug 445852

@Alan: both 8.04 (which was what was on the thing until I foolishly reinstalled it) and 9.04. Also tried a mini-recue-dist of some sort, although I don' remember which one.

Also tried a Solaris-thing, as someone mentioned above, but I didn't have the patience at that time (was late, and I'd been at it for a couple hours) to make the USB boot, which took non-trivial effort (i.e. it didn't "just work").