non-booted Breezy install?

Stephan Hermann sh at sourcecode.de
Sat Oct 29 01:49:58 UTC 2005


Hi,

can u pxe boot somehow?

If yes, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/LocalNet
or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/Netboot

The first one helped me a lot with my portege.

regards,

\sh
 
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 21:56 +0200, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> The situation:
> - a laptop with a broken CD-ROM
> - no USB key to boot from
> - working installations of WinXP and Debian sid on the hard disk
> - working 512 kbit/s Internet connection
> 
> The goal: clean Breezy install. :o)
> 
> Is there a way to install Breezy without
> being able to boot any external media?
> 
> Maybe there's a way to run the Ubuntu installer from Windows or Debian?
> I can attach an ATAPI CD-ROM through an USB connector, but I can't boot
> from it. The Breezy install CD-ROM is seen (at least under Debian),
> though.
> 
> I don't care what happens to the Windows and Debian installations,
> I won't need them as long as I have a working Breezy install afterwards.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Shot





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