Howto install DD without CD

[David Hart]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:33:38AM +0000, alain.muls at telenet.be wrote:
> 
> I have a DELL laptop Inspiron 5100 on which I would like to install Dapper Drake. The problem is that the CD drive is not working anymore. How can I perform a clean install on this PC?

There are several ways to install without a cdrom drive but I need a bit
more info to be able to suggest a method.

A few questions:

What removable media can you boot from?

How do you connect to the Internet?

Do you have another machine from which you could copy files over a
network connection?

Do you have anything installed on your harddisk currently, and if so,
what is it and how is it partitioned?

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>