Howto install DD without CD

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This might help . . . (supposing you've not been there yet)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/Netboot



On 5/28/06, danpre <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> David Hart Wrote:
> > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:33:38AM +0000, alain.muls (AT) telenet (DOT)
> > 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?
> >
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> > David Hart <ubuntu (AT) tonix (DOT) org>
> >
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> I have the same problem: notebook with cdrom not working anymore, there
> is no system on the computer; hard drive have 3 partitions: hdc1 ext2
> 10gb, hdc2 ext3 29gb and swap 1gb
>
> I have 256 mb pen drive and 40gb external usb drive and access to
> internet (static IP) and a few windows servers where I can store files.
>
> Is it possible to install dapper?
>
>
> --
> danpre
>
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