How to install new Ubuntu without a CD
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Aug 24 12:22:46 UTC 2018
At Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:45:05 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On 23/08/18 21:53, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2018, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Peter Flynn:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> I have an old laptop that
> > ...
> >> You can get a card with two USB ports on and insert that ...
> >
> > might be a bit tricky in a laptop ;)
>
> Defnitely, I had missed that bit :-)
>
> The last time I saw a laptop without a USB port was in 2000 running
> Windows/ME, so I am assuming as I said that "media reader" is some kind
> of socket device (USB? SD card?)
I understood "media reader" as optical disk (CD/DVD) reader. Very often laptop
optical disk (CD/DVD) readers go bad -- they are just not built to last. Some
of them can be removed and replaced easily enough (if one really wants to
bother).
>
> So yes, probably take out the HD, get a caddy and mount it as an
> external drive on another computer and install the OS that way.
>
> ///Peter
>
>
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