I thought I'd share a little tip I found on a quick and painless way of installing ubuntu.
I needed to re-install ubuntu-server on an old 2Ghz Dell with limitations - No CDROM Drive (I can't believe it, I'm out of spare cdrom drives). - USB Flash 1.1 was WAY TOO SLOW Google found many howtos on how to setup a TFTP boot server to install ubuntu, but they all seemed a little over-kill, and complex for a one-off solution... I only needed to install 1 server. But then I googled a bit more and found this: http://hugi.to/blog/archive/2006/12/23/ubuntu-pxe-install-via-windows So I booted up XP (in it's only safe environment a virtual machine). and I followed the very clear step by step instructions, and within moments I was installing ubuntu server 10.04 over the net (thank god for a nice and quick ubuntu mirror in canada). So if you need a quick way to install ubuntu on an old machine, but don't have to do it often enough to setup a permanent TFTP server, I recommend this quick howto.
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