Linux Installing Q

VeNT

VeNT

VeNT

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ok, figured out that the CD drive on my laptop is broken (well really it's the docks connection to the laptop but it's the same effect anyway) and I can't boot from USB, I've no floppy drive on my main PC so I figured 99% of my options are gone for installing linux on this bugger.

Then I thought, I've got a USB caddy I can pop it in and connect it up to my main PC.

Is there anyway I can run the install medum off the hard disk to install onto another partition on the same disk?

any ideas would be very wellcome, I'm hoping to install #!CrunchBang Linux on it.
 
VeNT said:
I can't boot from USB
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USB, I can't boot from it.
what I was thinking was, would using that app to install it to a partiton on the disk, installing the disk on the PC cause it to boot?
 
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ok I now get a Grub loading error 22 (need to FIXMBR on this bugger) but again, no CD boot etc. ideas?
 
would just show as USB (checked)
wanna hear somthing stupid?
damn thing can pickup the CD drive when I've an old Ubuntu disk in. starts loading it and everything.
I don't get it.
I'm gonna see if I can use this to fix it. any idea what the relevent command is in linux for FIXMBR?
 
ok so ubuntu doesn't get very far! past the whole "checking battery state" load part then sits with black screen and curser and doesn't do anything
looks like this is nearly dead sadly :( gonna miss my vaio
 
if I put the laptop hard disk in my PC and install the system via that will it not totaly not work when I try and boot it in a laptop that is about 10 years older?
 
it can!
any idea where I would get started with a PXE server? only other system I've got on the network is a Vista Home Prem 64bit
unless I can boot it from a live disk.
 
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh headake!
trying to setup a PXE server on vista, I've got crunchbang linux ISO but don't know what files to extract to the shared folder? HELP!
 
easier if the hard disk works.
can someone tell me if that would work as my hard drive appears to die every time I try it!
 
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