I've had a couple of machines so far that refused to load from the CD due to dirty lenses or other malfunctions in the drive, but I recently found a fantastic script to get around the problem.
Basically, if you boot from a live CD in another machine and then run this command, it turns the machine into a network boot FTP server, then mounts the CD as a bootable device across the LAN. Boot the "broken" machine from the network card and it will go off and find an image across the LAN.
So basically, I'm sat here now looking at a laptop with a dodgy CD drive that is running a Live CD image across the LAN. Absolutely marvellous. Well, to me. Your mileage may vary.
Instructions here
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Or just copy and paste this into a terminal if you can't be bothered to read up!
ReplyDeletewget 'http://users.sch.gr/alkisg/tosteki/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2525.0;attach=1421' -O /tmp/livecd-netboot && sudo sh /tmp/livecd-netboot