ArtzP
January 29th, 2010, 12:11 PM
I have a big problem with my laptop. I have blank harddisk (with no partition at the moment). I can access it from another computer with usb box. My laptop has no cd rom,floppy and cannot boot from usb.
Is there possible to boot from harddisk when I write there copy of ubuntu cd image (extracted .iso) to it? What partition should I use? I have tryed fat, fat 32 and ext2. But bios cannot read them (partition table failure or something like that). Also I can not put new cd-rom to laptop, because pin-s are broken.
Or is there something other way - for example copy ubuntu (or some other linux) files to the harddisk using other computer, and then log to computer.
Looking forward to your answers.
PS! I have read about network installer, but this is unlikely to complete it, because different OS-es and network permissions.
Is there possible to boot from harddisk when I write there copy of ubuntu cd image (extracted .iso) to it? What partition should I use? I have tryed fat, fat 32 and ext2. But bios cannot read them (partition table failure or something like that). Also I can not put new cd-rom to laptop, because pin-s are broken.
Or is there something other way - for example copy ubuntu (or some other linux) files to the harddisk using other computer, and then log to computer.
Looking forward to your answers.
PS! I have read about network installer, but this is unlikely to complete it, because different OS-es and network permissions.