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Re: [LUG] Interesting situation...

 

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:44 +0100, 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
> 
> I had the same problem. I took the drive out and put it into a different laptop 
> that has a working CD drive, 
> installed it there and then put it back. This worked fine and quickly. The laptops 
> were completely different makes and models. 
> I did this with a standard Kubuntu installation - 6.10.

Viv


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