[nflug] Ubuntu network install?

David Rosonowski rosonowski at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 05:38:29 EDT 2006


The CD drive is no good, the HDD is fine. ;-)

On 10/27/06, Boice <evrgreen at netsync.net> wrote:
> David Rosonowski wrote:
> > So, turns out the CD drive on my laptop is no good (again?), and I'm
> > left with no way to install Ubuntu on the news of flash 9's release.
> > Now, it offers network boot, but to be honest, I have no idea where to
> > even begin.
> >
> > It's a dell inspiron 8200. hikaru, and I have the latest ISO burned to
> > CD.
> > I have another computer, wintermute, that's a generic win32 (XP) box,
> > and another laptop, enzo, which is an OS X machine without a CD drive.
> > (it died too...).
> >
> > Anyone know of a decent walkthrough or at least something to start with?
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> Get a new HDD for your laptop!
>
> Here's a Seagate 60 gigabyte  UDMA/100, 5400 RPM spindle speed  8 MB
> buffer laptop drive for  $49.95. If you enter the code FLATRATE when you
> check out, shipping is $1.99
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST960822A-R&cm_mmc=geekmail-_-daily_html-_-27oct06_FLATRATE_-FLATRATEmain
>
> I buy a lot of my parts for repair jobs & upgrades from the Geeks. I
> usually try to wait until they have special sales or shipping promos
> like this deal. They ship FedEx from S. California --about 4-5 days you
> usually have it.
>
> As far as a network install, I never tried it, so I can't suggest
> anything there, sorry.
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