<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arragon@lineone.net">arragon@lineone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Okay this is an odd one. I have a hobbled machine. It's a fairly recent<br>
Sony Vaio which I'd like to reuse. Even though it's recent it won't book<br>
via USB. And the real issue is that the CD driver has failed, and I'm not<br>
likely to dork out for another. So I have no USB, and a non-working<br>
internal CD drive.<br>
<br>
It has Windows XP and so I could use that to execute something, and I have a<br>
LAN connection.<br>
<br>
So the question is, what's the easiest route to getting this running<br>
something useful?<br>
<br>
David<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>Another alternative is Netbooting which is fairly easy if you have another machine set up. Ubuntu
has good instructions on the community help pages
(<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot</a>) and I'm sure
it is similarly easy to do this for other distros such as Fedora. It can get slightly more complicated if you want to get an unattended setup running but just getting the installer running off the network instead of the CD is simple enough.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Harry Mills<br>