Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Found this post using a google search.
Here is my hardware:
IBM240 with no CD and Fedora Core 1 installed
Purchased from eBay for £50.00
333mhz processor
192mb RAM (hence Xubuntu)
10GB HD
External floppy
Intel Pro 2011b 802.11B PCMCIA Wireless card (does not work with Fedora Core 1)
Here are my details:
Partitioned the drive so that i had a 750mb partition.
Followed all the steps and presto chango, Xubuntu 7.04 installed and working.
Make sure you use the vmlinuz and initrd.gz from the link. In my case i used the link to find the correct files for 7.04. The ones in the link are for 6.10. The 6.10 files did not work for 7.04.
I used the alternate install .iso not the live CD.
I did not need to use steps 9 and 10.
I used the manual install option and chose the fedora core 1 partitions, a bit scary as that destroys my fedora install, however as i only have 10gb HD then better use of my space. BTW fedora core 1 is the only distro i have found that will boot from a floppy and then install from an external USB cdrom!. Although this is a working linux, FC1 is not very good with wireless cards.
I have left the 750mb partition/.iso files where they are and updated the Xubuntu Grub menu.lst so that if i have an issue in the future i should still be able to re-install again. A bit like one of those emergency return to factory configuration partitions you usually get with Windows machines these days.
Now i have an ultra portable laptop with a useful operating system that's better than Windows.
Well done and thanks for this thread, keep up the good work everyone.
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Last edited by skroops; December 3rd, 2007 at 04:29 PM. Reason: Not relevant.
Hi,
I've put together a small HOWTO on the Gujin bootloader, really useful for booting any LiveCD or OS from a .iso file
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=666267
John
Hello all,
First off, I'm completely new to Linux. My understanding of linux is non-existent.
Anyways, I'm really interested in trying Xubuntu, but am not quite ready to leave Windows XP. My question is would this method work for a dual boot system. 1 harddrive: 1st partition XP, 2nd partition xubuntu?
I'm asking because my old laptop has only one hard drive, no cdrom, non bootable usb. Specs are 12GB, 320MB RAM, Celeron 400 MHz.
Current I have three partitions on the hard drive... 1st has 6GB for WinXP, 2nd has 5GB blank, and 3rd has 800MB also blank. I was hoping to get xubuntu on to the 2nd partition, and putting the alternate iso along with install files into the third partition.
One more thing, partitions 1 and 3 are ntfs, and the 2nd is ext3.
Help Please!
yes, split the drive into 3 partitions, one for Windows another for the Ubuntu installation and another smaller one for the .iso, vmlinuz & initrd.gz files. Then install grub to the disc with an entry similar to the one on the first page of the howto.
Please check this forum/wiki docs for instructions on how install grub.
Please come back to us.
im trying to install hardy alpha5 and downoad the ISO file , i have arch linux in /dev/sda3 , wanna to intall without CD neither windows
first i use the way this thread says ...Code:/dev/sda1 winxp /dev/sda2 intend to install ubuntu hardy /dev/sda3 arch
copy init*.gz vmlinuz hardy-desktop-i386.iso to /boot
and make the menu.lst like below : ( initrd.gz vmlinuz copy from iso casper folder )
but , it can not change the virtual console within the install process , i google somebody use this in windows/grub4dos way :HTML Code:title Install without CD root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz vga=normal ramdisk_size=14972 root=/dev/rd/0 rw -- initrd /boot/initrd.gz boot
now , it make progress a little more ^^HTML Code:title Install without CD2 #find --set-root /boot/hardy-desktop-i386.iso root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=casper find_iso=/boot/hardy-desktop-i386.iso initrd /boot/initrd.gz
stopped at [initramfs~] , like a shell environment ...
then , what can i do next
thanks .
Last edited by iblicf; February 24th, 2008 at 06:39 AM.
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