Shoutbox

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13

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Originally posted by Jarrod
well he rekons the batteries are under some plastic shit and hard to get out, yeah i under stand the network boot and am on my way to watch the vid, the laptop has been configured to use PXE and i'm thinking i'll need to emulate the settings it already uses... he told me to day when i suggested a 2.5" replacement hdd he said it was actually 1.8" and used a connection which i can't quite remember the name of it but was u"something"...

and to be honest i don't think usb is in the boot sequence, we put a (working) external cd drive in there, it spins up as soon as we power it up then it just spins down

[edit:] after watching the youtube vid, they use vmware server, so i need server? or can i get away with workstation?

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3 things:

1) You can get an external 1.8" USB enclosure off Amazon, I paid £13 for mine when my Zen Touch died. Worked a treat - until the hard drive died about 3 months later.

2) VMWare Workstation is actually better than VMWare Server. VMWare Server is free, and does not support sharing folders. Apart from that, there's negligible difference. (Except for the fact that Server is 100mb dl, WS is around 300).

3) It seems odd that USB wouldn't be in the boot sequence. However this may mean USB flash drive, there may be other options for USB-CD, USB-FDD either (I know my desktop has these at least).

Something else just came to mind... some laptops you can press <Esc> when it's booting, this will allow you to "change" the boot order. Even if there's a password, doing so will generally let you press enter on a device and let you boot straight to that. It only works for devices activate in the BIOS, though.

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might try the keypress, also I know for sure it doesn't boot off the usb-cd even if we force it by removing all other boot devices