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 <iso-image> /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
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