8.10 impressions

[Emanoil Kotsev]

--- On Sun, 10/12/08, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> From: Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>
> Subject: Re: 8.10 impressions
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 5:47 PM
> On 10/12/2008 Knapp wrote:
> >  Sounds really good. I am still holding out hope that
> the devs make
> >  this look good.
> >
> >  In about 2 weeks I am going to try to install it to
> my brothers laptop
> >  guiding him over the internet (There are no details
> about the laptop
> >  because it is not standard and getting info out of xp
> is not something
> >  I am good at). Not easy to do! In the past this has
> not worked out
> >  because the CD will not boot is system.
> >
> >  Anyone have a check list for booting a really hard to
> boot system. As
> >  in try this, and if not that then this, etc? I would
> be a real help. I
> >  am thinking of just having him use the alt CD to
> hopefully avoid
> >  problems.
> 
> OK, really stupid questions.
> 
> Does the CD drive have any known issues? [ plays music etc.
> just fine ]
> Has he checked the bios to see:
> The machine will boot from CD. Most will but
> ...............
> The CD is set higher on the boot order than the hard drive.
> 
> Perhaps run one of those CD cleaner disks in it. If his is
> like mine it 
> doesn't get a LOT of use and dust sometimes collects. 
> Blow it out with 
> some compressed-air-in-a-can.
> 
> My eMachine has a built in boot loader sort of thing in the
> bios that 
> lets me choose which drive I want to boot from regardless
> of above 
> settings. I push F10 at a certain point and it gives me a
> list of 
> available devices, internal and external, to choose from. [
> Kind of a 
> nice feature sometimes - wish all had that. ]
> 
> -- 
> Life is what happens while you're busy making other
> plans.
> 

You do not need a CD to install - you can copy. It's a bit harder though

1) Download the kubuntu CD image.
2) use something like qemu to install virtually
3) rip the data from the qemu partition into a tarball
-- usb boot --
4a) get a usb bootable image and prepare usb disk (if your pc can boot from usb)
5a) boot, partition and copy the data
-- pxe boot --
4b) prepare a pxe boot directory on your second pc
5b) boot the first one with pxe and let it boot from the second one

both ways work fine
with the second way you can even boot from the cd iso image 

there's a bunch of howtos on the net. if you have questions ask me

regards