can I use a damaged drive? + diagnosing problems from pxe boot

[Jamon Camisso]

My other suggestion is to myself: read more carefully when posting...

>> ran windows on it.  There's no cd and it doesn't seem to want to boot
>> from usb, so pxe seems to be the only way to boot the thing.  I've
> 
> My suggestion would be to boot off a usb key. It looks like that unit is 
> new enough.
> 
> Slax is a very nice <200mb pen drive distro that really comes in handy 
> for such situations. There are also 2 other versions, one that will fit 
> on a 64mb key iirc.
> 
> A quick Debian pen drive install:
> http://d-i.pascal.at/
> 
> I haven't poked around, but http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ looks very 
> useful too.


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