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

[Lisi Reisz]

On Friday 14 August 2015 13:32:58 Simon Story wrote:
> 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!

Thanks, Simon.  

Not yet.  I ran out of time, not ideas.  It is supposed to be able to boot 
from PXE, but I hadn't got around to trying it.  If, for whatever reason, we 
don't fix it tomorrow, that is what I shall try next at home, when I surface.  
Thanks for the reference.

Lisi