Hi John,
Originally I had not seen this thread so I had started one at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=461814
The laptop (Dell inspiron 4000) I am trying to install to has:
No CDROM drive
No functioning floppy drive
No boot from USB option in the BIOS
No bootable OS on the HDD (wiped)
I have removed the HDD from the laptop and installed in in an external USB HDD housing, connected it to a UbuntuStudio (7.04) system and gparted it with 2 partitions. The first one just over 1 GB and the second one the remainder of the HDD capacity (approximately18 GB).
I don't seem to have been able to get grub installed.
When I boot the laptop with the HDD re-installed it say there is no bootable system.
I have downloaded the files and copied them to the 1 GB partition.
Thats about as far as I got.
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