OS installation issues on a laptop with broken USB
by dilbert_uk from LinuxQuestions.org on (#53NYS)
Hello to everyone,
after years, I am here again. ;-)
On my Acer Aspire E-14 laptop broke the SSD and I got a new one. Due to this quarantine I cannot move much around here and the big centres with Linux-savvy people in the downtown city are closed now, also.
So, I got only a Windows 7 on my new SSD which doesn't recognise the two USB ports. Booting with a USB stick doesn't work neither.
But when I run a broken Debian install process that I started with the Debian w32 installer, then the mouse works with USB. Someone does understand this?
I tried Wubi.exe, what fails already in Windows 7. It isn't supported anymore neither.
This Acer Aspire E-14 doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, only the presumably not working USB ports, Ethernet, HDMI and an SD card slot, which doesn't boot neither.
I had the impression that in ancient times there was the possibility to simply install from the network without any external bootable device. Someone knows of that?
On this laptop, I got now from the things I tried, a bootmanager that has 1) Windows 7, 2) the broken Debian install that complains about not having a CD, and 3) a UNetBootin entry that also doesn't work.
When my laptop broke, I tried my old PC that I haven't switch on for years. That was broken, too, because of a motherboard failure due to cockroaches. With this repaired, I see that this ancient Acer Aspire T-180 does have many USB ports but the BIOS doesn't support booting from USB ...
The installations on it, Lubutu 10.04 and Puppy 5.1, are that ancient that an upgrade is impossible. Only a new install from scratch. Fortunately that PC has a DVD writer on it.
With this PC, I tried a PXE network install for the laptop, but the Lubuntu 10.04 cannot install dnsmasq ... because version 10.04 too ancient ...
Seems that I need first to install a new OS on that PC to run then subsequently a PXE server to then run a network boot on the laptop. In connection with that, I have read that I would need first to make the iso file bootable? Is that true? How would I do that?
Any other ideas, please?
after years, I am here again. ;-)
On my Acer Aspire E-14 laptop broke the SSD and I got a new one. Due to this quarantine I cannot move much around here and the big centres with Linux-savvy people in the downtown city are closed now, also.
So, I got only a Windows 7 on my new SSD which doesn't recognise the two USB ports. Booting with a USB stick doesn't work neither.
But when I run a broken Debian install process that I started with the Debian w32 installer, then the mouse works with USB. Someone does understand this?
I tried Wubi.exe, what fails already in Windows 7. It isn't supported anymore neither.
This Acer Aspire E-14 doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, only the presumably not working USB ports, Ethernet, HDMI and an SD card slot, which doesn't boot neither.
I had the impression that in ancient times there was the possibility to simply install from the network without any external bootable device. Someone knows of that?
On this laptop, I got now from the things I tried, a bootmanager that has 1) Windows 7, 2) the broken Debian install that complains about not having a CD, and 3) a UNetBootin entry that also doesn't work.
When my laptop broke, I tried my old PC that I haven't switch on for years. That was broken, too, because of a motherboard failure due to cockroaches. With this repaired, I see that this ancient Acer Aspire T-180 does have many USB ports but the BIOS doesn't support booting from USB ...
The installations on it, Lubutu 10.04 and Puppy 5.1, are that ancient that an upgrade is impossible. Only a new install from scratch. Fortunately that PC has a DVD writer on it.
With this PC, I tried a PXE network install for the laptop, but the Lubuntu 10.04 cannot install dnsmasq ... because version 10.04 too ancient ...
Seems that I need first to install a new OS on that PC to run then subsequently a PXE server to then run a network boot on the laptop. In connection with that, I have read that I would need first to make the iso file bootable? Is that true? How would I do that?
Any other ideas, please?