[xubuntu-users] How-to install without CD?

[The Gamer's Federation]

Wouldn't WUBI work?  I've used it on several xp and vista machines.  Made 
installation quite easy.  Just map a folder to i: name it ubunutu and 
install there?



On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Marko Oreskovic wrote:

> deemarie at fastmail.fm wrote:
>> Dear Xubuntu
>>
>> I would like instructions on how to install Xubuntu 8.10 from an iso
>> image that is on my hard drive.
>> Also, if it matters,  which  ISO image would I need to download....
>> Desktop CD or Alternate install CD... in order to accomplish this?
>>
>> I was able to do this for Puppy Linux. Unzipped iso to C:\, added grldr
>> and menu.lst to C:\boot.images folder,  modified boot.ini  adding
>> C:\GRLDR="Puppy Menu".
>> That made a "frugal install".  From there you can do normal/full install
>> to another hard drive/partition.
>>
>> That's what I'm looking to do with your Xubuntu.  Puppy Linux was awful.
>>
>> I'm running Windows 2000pro btw.  866PIII, 512ram.
>> I'd like to put Xubuntu on hda3 (I:)
>>
>> Thank you
>> Deemarie
>
> You can install Xubuntu (or any other Ubuntu or some other Linux
> distributions) by using USB flash drive (1GB or bigger)
> with: unetbootin
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/
> It can be used to make bootable USB drive out of .ISO image
> and it works under Linux or windows for USB preparation.
> It is fine GUI program, Just wait for data to be written on flash drive.
>
> There is also universal unetbootin and customized for certain distributions.
> It can also both do downloading of distribution files for making
> bootable usb disk or use already downloaded .iso
>
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