non-booted Breezy install?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 28/10/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot at hot.pl> 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.

And also this wiki page that explains how to install Ubuntu using debootstrap:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/FromAnotherDistro

warning: I  didn't try these wiki instruction. But a long time ago I
did successfully install Warty from a Fedora partition using these
Debian's instructions:
  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04.html.en


--
Daniel Robitaille