Dell Ubuntu Netbook

Shannon McMackin smcmackin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 17:35:28 UTC 2009


On 06/08/2009 12:44 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Hi fgolks,
>      I bought my wife a Dell Ubuntu Netbook  it has a 3.8Gig solid state
> drive. ( No hard drive). It also has a dell modified version of Ubuntu
> to make it smaller.  I installed and updated for ubuntu that installed
> all the programs and files dell had removed from the installed version.
> Now I need to reinstall dells version from a CD as the main drive is
> full of files. The net book  does not have a cd drive I'm thinking I
> might be able to run the cd in my ubuntu computer  and reinstall in
> Ubuntu in the dell computer through a USB port.  Does anyone have any
> advice on this and how to do it??
>                                                               Doug
>
If you have another laptop with a CD drive, I would recommend creating 
an ISO image of the CD and then using the ISO to USB tool to create a 
bootable USB stick to install from for the Dell.





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