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Paul Sutton wrote: > Neil Stone 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 >> >> > > Does it have a floppy drive? if it does then perhaps a net install > would work > > Paul > > It does have a floppy drive... but I'm having problems locating a floppy disk, and a floppy image... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html