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Re: [LUG] Interesting situation...

 

Does it have an ethernet port? Obvious but you could try a network
install...boot from lan.

Or also, what about an external cd drive? Wouldn't have to boot if
there's already an OS on the hard drive...

sorry couple of obvious things but might help,

Jon

On 04/04/07, Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A guy at work has come to me with an interesting situation...
>
> He has a laptop on which he would like GNU/Linux installed (he wants SuSe,
> but i'm trying to avoid RPM based if I can)
>
> Problem, the CD drive is knackered... the machine can't boot from USB....
>
> Is there an easy way I can load up a disk image (or similar) on to the
> hard disk (which I have on a USB dongle right now) to plug in and install
> a distro...? (I was pondering Ubuntu, and no I don't care what people say
> about it not being "totally free")
>
> Regards
>
> Neil
>
>
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