On 10-06-21 07:43 PM, Craig McLean wrote: > Hello. > > I have a Toshiba Portege R100. This is a really thin laptop, that has no > internal CD drive. It also doesn't really support external USB drives. You > need a PCMCIA based CD-ROM to boot from CD. > > Is there some kind of boot disk I can use to bootstrap the Ubuntu installer? > I've tried the "Smart Boot Manager" however it also needs BIOS support for > USB CD drives in order to work. > > I know I could PXE boot this thing to get it moving, however at the moment > I'd prefer not to have to build all of that infrastructure. > > I've done some googling and found a few schemes that involve multiple > partitions and lots of hand hacking. This all seems far more complicated > than it should be. > Perhaps this is what you are looking for: http://boot.kernel.org/index.html#howtouse
You may also want to look in to Debian instead of Ubuntu, there should be a netboot floppy image. http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst You could also put the hard drive into a different machine (with an adapter or USB dongle, do the install, and then move the hard drive back. The -generic kernel images that Ubuntu uses should boot on any x86 machine. This is not Windows after all :) Hth,
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