floppy/PCMCIA/CD install

Kenneth Haase kh at beingmeta.com
Thu Oct 14 02:26:44 UTC 2004


The SmartBootManager doesn't seem to have a way to boot from PCMCIA 
CD-ROMs.  Any other ideas?

On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Ben Edwards wrote:

> http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/SmartBootManager should help.
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:47:31 -0400, Kenneth Haase <kh at beingmeta.com> 
> wrote:
>> I'd like to install Ubuntu on some notebooks which don't have integral
>> CD drives to boot off of.  However, I do have a PCMCIA CD-ROM and
>> external floppies for these notebooks.  I tried to download the debian
>> installer floppies to use with Ubuntu, but I couldn't get it to work
>> (maybe I was missing something obvious).
>>
>> How can I install Ubuntu using a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ken
>>
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