installation on older IBM computer

[tsucol11]

I need a small nudge in the right direction.

I have an IBM pentium 3 with 384 megs of ram. Machine runs XP pro sp3 without problems.

I would like to convert the entire machine (all 35 gig)to Ubuntu 8.10. My problem lies in that bios will only let me boot from the HD or from floppy drive A: not CD.

XP pro was installed using a win 98 diskette.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Brian

[felker2]

Easy: take out the harddisk and put it in another computer (with a CD drive). Boot the Ubuntu Live CD in that other computer and install Ubuntu. After installation, put the harddisk back in your old IBM computer and boot it up. Ready!

Works for me!

[tsucol11]

An interesting thought. Doesn't Ubuntu install the drivers for the video card, network etc, it would mean that it has the right drivers for the new MB but the wrong drivers for the old IBM.

Is it possible to do a re detect??

Thx

Brian

[felker2]

I think Linux does auto-detection of hardware at every boot. Just like a Linux live-CD does.

So I'm quite sure it will work for you. It has always worked for me, for example in my HP e-PC, which is a small system without CD-drive at all.

Let me know if it works.