New HDD

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 19:09 +0100, pete smout wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have brought a new HDD for my laptop, and I want to install 13.10
> (saucy) onto it, the problem starts that my DVD burner is on the fritz,
> and I cannot get my lappy to boot from USB stick!

Is this of any help?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16822/boot-from-a-usb-drive-even-if-your-bios-wont-let-you/

Depends if you have a floppy drive. Somewhere else I've seen a how-to
using network boot to do the same thing. One of the graphics is of the
Ubuntu installer.

I've never done this, just passing on the result of a google search.

Dave