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wolfeking

wolfeking

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Ok. I should know this, but have never had a need to do it before.
Problem: I am at grandads. Dont have any DVD's/CD's, no Flash key. The Grub MBR on my AMD Acer is screwed (tried to remove ubuntu and forgot that was the source of grub).

My idea: is it possible that I could Download the .iso on my working laptop, and attach it through ethernet ports and boot it to install that way? Or am I going to have to wait till I get home and have access to my Ubuntu flash key?
 
salvage-this said:
Pretty sure that you will have to wait. I don't think that you could make it bootable from your Ethernet port.
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Yeah, IIRC you need some sort of bootable CD (XP, Ubuntu) to fix your MBR. It's especially hard if you try to install linux on a USB key, although that's my own problem. :)
 
wolfeking said:
Ok. I should know this, but have never had a need to do it before.
Problem: I am at grandads. Dont have any DVD's/CD's, no Flash key. The Grub MBR on my AMD Acer is screwed (tried to remove ubuntu and forgot that was the source of grub).

My idea: is it possible that I could Download the .iso on my working laptop, and attach it through ethernet ports and boot it to install that way? Or am I going to have to wait till I get home and have access to my Ubuntu flash key?
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what exactly is the issue? Can you not fix it from the command line? Or can you not even get that far?
 
I couldnt get that far. It was stuck at the grub screen. I fixed it by reinstalling ubuntu in 2gb partition just to get it back to grub and windows.
Its fixed now.
 
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