I bought a laptop off ebay the other day (£20 ) only to find the rom drive is dead. Ive bought another off ebay (£1 ) and its on its way. Thing is im impatient and want to get xubuntu on it asap. Is there a way of installing ubuntu over ethernet or a memory stick? Id imagine id need a floppy bootable distro just to get me started because I cant boot from my memory stick or ethernet. Or if I plug my laptop hdd into my desktop can I copy stuff over to the hdd and install that way?
Yes it is what im looking for. Thanks Donkey. Ive just found out my hdd is knackered! It was fine yesterday. There goes another £30!
no probs, trying *nix on USB PEN myself check out Bonzai, i found it on this *nix list BTW: i think originally i googled something like "debian KDE" on googles *nix search Edit: Bonzai has some security issues on their site, personally i enabled temp authorize co i'm not on win but i also closed their site straight after starting download [ot]was it an old Maxtor HDD ?[/ot]
i would take a look at the packages nfsboot & nfsbooted Code: apt-cache show nfsboot nfsbooted I haven't used it yet, but i plan to see if i can get my laptop to netboot (or perhaps more amusing, become a netboot server with a preconfigured dban image :devilsdsd) as i have a foobared cd drive (But i get paid Wednesday, so i might finally get a DVD-RW & GPS on it)
a-men to that, i recently killed my setup (router), but back now i don't care, honest BTW: will look @ nfsboot & nfsbooted when i get chance, thankies BTW: wouldn't you be getting a dual format drive or a blu-ray & possibly with built in GPS or am i not understanding
Come again? i don't quite get what your asking! I'm going to buy a Dual layer DVD burner [which will also burn cd's] and a usb GPS... i don't think they even make blu-ray drives for my hacktop [I've dubbed it a hacktop because of how little of the original is remaining]
right, i assumed you were not getting a dual format drive, cos you put DVD-RW not DL RW + & -, sorry BTW: i should have assumed you were not getting a plain DVD-RW yeah, i can't find any, so your right & i'm wrong as usual, need to check before i post,but thats too much like common sense for me, sorry for the confusion BTW: i do feel like a plank (again), thankies for putting up with me, i could blame the brain damage, but i've always being a lot of a plank Edit: your as bad / mad as me, although the difference is: you know stuff & i can't remember some stuff
