This might work for you: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jesse Rink <[email protected]> wrote: > PS, the term I was looking for for the bootable cd/usb disk is a Live CD. > I couldn't remember the name, lol. Maybe something like Live CD for Fedora? > > > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on > behalf of Jesse Rink [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 5:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] bootable cd/usb os to check serial port > > This is an odd request but, I have (2) HP DL360p GEN8 servers that currently > run VMWare 5.1. Neither seems to allow the physical Serial Port on the > server to pass through to a VM anymore (however both Host servers DID work, > but just stopped working for some reason). > > > > VMWare is baffled, HP doesn't think the serial port is bad, etc. > > > > I want to test the serial port on each of the DL360p GEN8 servers WITHOUT > having to wipe the VMWare installation on the server itself. Is there a > bootable Linux CD distro or something else I can use that without > affecting/reinstalling the actual Host server(s), that allows me to test the > Serial Port by connecting the server's serial port directly to one of my HP > switches and verifying Console Port access is working from the host.? > > > > If I can find a bootable USB/CD distro that has a putty-like or > hyperterm-like program, I can at least determine if the problem with the > Serial Port is VMWare related or not. > > > > JR
