install ubuntu without CD-rom drive?

[Matt Morgan]

On 10/11/05, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to install Ubuntu on a Toshiba Portege 3110ct. It has no
> internal cd-rom drive, and it's not able to boot off a USB or parallel
> CD. I know about sbm.bin, an image to make a floppy that allows
> booting off of CD's even when the BIOS won't allow it, but that only
> works for IDE drives (or at least, it doesn't work for me with this
> computer and this USB cd-rom drive).
>
> The computer has Windows 2000 on it now, and has extra room on the
> hard drive. Can I copy the contents of the Ubuntu CD to it, and run
> the install from the hard drive? I can't find any success stories
> about that on Google. I think this is possible with Debian, so I'm
> hoping it's kept in Ubuntu.

Here's how:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-28948.html

I was searching for "install ubuntu from hard disk" rather than
"install ubuntu without cd-rom drive." The former got me nowhere; the
latter worked!