| [08:12] <Ph0x> anyone here | |
| [08:18] <silverlion> hi Ph0x | |
| [09:22] <Ph0x> i think the computer is just screwed | |
| [09:22] <Ph0x> its ancient | |
| [09:22] <Ph0x> @ silverlion | |
| [09:22] <Ph0x> i just gave up | |
| [09:22] <Ph0x> thanks for saying hi | |
| [09:22] <silverlion> Ph0x : I dont give up that simple | |
| [09:22] <silverlion> talk to me | |
| [09:25] <Ph0x> its an old presaro amd64 | |
| [09:25] <Ph0x> i think the cd rom is shot | |
| [09:25] <Ph0x> the dvd-r is definately shot | |
| [09:26] <Ph0x> itll start distro cds but it always locks up on a seek | |
| [09:26] <Ph0x> and just keepps seeking | |
| [09:26] <Ph0x> i got debian on it and i think it died soon after | |
| [09:26] <Ph0x> but debians being stupid and not acting right | |
| [09:29] <silverlion> Ph0x : I dont know that Modell good enough so help me out: is there any posibility to boot from USB? | |
| [09:34] <Ph0x> yes but the only USB stick i have on hand is "windows 8 complient" which means it htinks its a hard drive | |
| [09:34] <Ph0x> it makes for all kidns of problems | |
| [09:37] <silverlion> Ph0x : Is there a way you can get hands on another usb? | |
| [09:40] <Ph0x> its not worth the effort | |
| [09:41] <silverlion> Ok your choice ;) | |
| [09:41] <silverlion> we're here in case you need us ;) | |
| [16:20] <deitarion> Ph0x: Isn't that "thinks its a hard drive" thing just an "is removable device" bit that can be toggled using the right utility? I seem to remember running across that while looking up the pros and cons of having a partition table on a thumbdrive vs. formatting /dev/sdh directly. | |
| [16:23] <deitarion> (I think it was a manufacturer-proprietary utility that just happened to work on anything, sort of like Seagate's SeaTools but for Flash.) | |