installing ubuntu through network cable from a Windows xp machine.

[Kristian Frisk]

Hi folks,

excuse me for my extreme noobnes but I have never used a linux distro before
(even though have read some), but now when my windows xp machine finally
crashed I decided to change for the better.

The problem: the cd-rom on the crashed computer is dead.

Solution: I hoped it would be possible to install ubuntu via a network cable
(lan) and found this site:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/WindowsServerNetboot

All worked very well (but not for too long). When coming to step 7 (see link
above) and running the tftpd32 program it immediately complained with
following:
"Error. Can't bind the BOOTP port!
Either you do not have necessary privilege or a BOOTP deamon is already
started or IP configuration has changed.
bind returns error -1, GetLastError 10048"
Pressing ok in that dialog gives a screen with several:
"Recv error 10038 [date,time and numbers]"

I know this problem is actually a bit of topic (and I'm sorry to bring it up
here) but the homepage for tftpd32 http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ didn't help me
much and the other pages I googled didn't do it either.
If someone have done something similar and have a clue about what to do I
would be very happy for an answer.

Thanks
Kris
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