[Sussex] [Portsmouth LUG] Portsmouth Linux User Group August meeting tomorrow

[Simon Story]

On 14/08/15 13:15, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> The next Portsmouth LUG meeting will be at the Broadoaks Sports and Social 
> Club tomorrow, Saturday 15th July from 13:00 to 18:00.

> I shall be bringing a laptop on which I have been trying in vain to install 
> Debian.  The problem is that it will not boot either from a USB key or my USB 
> external optical drive, although according to the BIOS it should.  It 
> cannot "see" a USB key with an .iso on, and times out fast when trying to 
> boot from the optical drive.  It didn't have a DVD drive, and there are 
> problems with the replacement internal optical drive that I bought.

Does it have an ethernet port? Have you tried to network (PXE - 'Pixie')
boot it?

Not too difficult if you have another linux box around.

https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall

I've not done it the DNSMasq way described at the bottom, but it looks
like it would be much quicker.

Good luck!