Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:07 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > The Ubuntu installation guides found at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation reveal all. :-) > > Please don't look at these ones, they're out of date and recommend some > really crazy stuff... The doc team are trying to push the good stuff out to > help.ubuntu.com, but there are some fixes to do (I just found out that the > dapper installation documentation is on doc.ubuntu.com). Shouldn't someone comment the wiki if this is the case? Perhaps just a link to the "good" stuff? -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:36:20 +1000 "T Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? > (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away) > > > > -- > Regards, > > > Trent Murray > (diazepam) I reinstalled Breezy after it broke on laptop with a broken CD-RW. :-( A USB CD-RW booted a live CD, and iso was stored on a different partition. So then mounted the iso as a loopback. mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mount-point this here helped: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot and debootstrap was pointed to the loopback mounted iso and worked like a treat. The partition was chrooted to clean up the installation. Its way faster than a CD install! HTH - R -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
There is a netboot floppy somewhere I believe, that will just apt-get the whole lot. But the way I would do it, if you already have the cd is put the laptop's hard drive in another laptop/desktop, install ubuntu, take the hard drive back out and put it back in your laptop and it will boot, and as somone said on the list a couple weeks ago "detect some stuff is missing and some has been appeared" and you should be right, the most you may need to do is run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to reconfigure your xserver. Morgan Storey, aka Changlinn. On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:36 +1000, T Murray wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away) -- Regards, Trent Murray (diazepam) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
On 6/5/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can do a netboot install. Check out the 'TFTP net booting' sections of the installer documentation (linking to breezy docs, for some reason the dapper ones aren't where I expected them to be): http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ I've done netboot in the past and it works very well. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
> The Ubuntu installation guides found at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation reveal all. :-) Please don't look at these ones, they're out of date and recommend some really crazy stuff... The doc team are trying to push the good stuff out to help.ubuntu.com, but there are some fixes to do (I just found out that the dapper installation documentation is on doc.ubuntu.com). - Jeff -- GUADEC 2006: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spainhttp://2006.guadec.org/ No pants is good pants. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
> Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? > (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away) You can do a netboot install. Check out the 'TFTP net booting' sections of the installer documentation (linking to breezy docs, for some reason the dapper ones aren't where I expected them to be): http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ - Jeff -- GUADEC 2006: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spainhttp://2006.guadec.org/ "Is your sense of identity inextricably bound to a large prime?" - Michael Meeks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
The Ubuntu installation guides found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation reveal all. :-) Lindsay On 6/5/06, T Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away) -- Regards, Trent Murray (diazepam) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://slug.org.au/ http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
Hi all,Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away)-- Regards,Trent Murray (diazepam) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
