jjjjeremy
August 28th, 2009, 06:30 PM
Some background:
I recently installed a clean copy of 9.04 on my laptop after having dual boot with windows vista, and 9.04 installed through windows.
After a day or so I noticed that the battery life was horrible compared to the windows-installed 9.04. Went on with it for a week or so, but yesterday I decided to go try out 8.04 instead for the battery life. I made a live8.04 usb and installed last night.
Now (in 8.04) drives won't mount unless they are plugged in before boot, and the battery is just as bad.
So, now I have a laptop that doesn't mount USB drives, and I don't have any blank CD's, but I want to install 9.04, and I think that I have a way, but I want some verification.
PS, this is the only computer I have access to, and I have 9.04 on an external drive that mounts if I have it plugged in and turned on at boot.
1. Boot with the live USB
2. Make a folder on my desktop "mkdir /home/jeremy/Desktop/Ubuntu9.04"
3. Mount 9.04 "mount -0 loop -t iso9660 /directoryof.iso /home/jeremy/Desktop/Ubuntu9.04"
4. Run the .iso
5. Install onto internal harddrive
In my head this works out perfectly, but, that could just be a horrible idea, let me know,
-jjjjeremy
I recently installed a clean copy of 9.04 on my laptop after having dual boot with windows vista, and 9.04 installed through windows.
After a day or so I noticed that the battery life was horrible compared to the windows-installed 9.04. Went on with it for a week or so, but yesterday I decided to go try out 8.04 instead for the battery life. I made a live8.04 usb and installed last night.
Now (in 8.04) drives won't mount unless they are plugged in before boot, and the battery is just as bad.
So, now I have a laptop that doesn't mount USB drives, and I don't have any blank CD's, but I want to install 9.04, and I think that I have a way, but I want some verification.
PS, this is the only computer I have access to, and I have 9.04 on an external drive that mounts if I have it plugged in and turned on at boot.
1. Boot with the live USB
2. Make a folder on my desktop "mkdir /home/jeremy/Desktop/Ubuntu9.04"
3. Mount 9.04 "mount -0 loop -t iso9660 /directoryof.iso /home/jeremy/Desktop/Ubuntu9.04"
4. Run the .iso
5. Install onto internal harddrive
In my head this works out perfectly, but, that could just be a horrible idea, let me know,
-jjjjeremy