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December 18th, 2008, 03:20 AM
I have a gutted laptop without a disc drive. I also have an adapter that plugs into an IDE port on the laptop's motherboard and lets it boot to CF flash cards. I want to run Xubuntu on this laptop from that CF card plugged into IDE. This gutted laptop sees the CF card as a hard drive, but I'm unable to install the OS without a disc drive--and its too old to boot to my USB CD drive.
Can I install Xubuntu from a newer machine through a USB/CF adapter, and then pop the CF card into the IDE/CF adapter and expect it to work on the other machine?
This is a bit tricky, I hope someone can help me.
Thanks!
Can I install Xubuntu from a newer machine through a USB/CF adapter, and then pop the CF card into the IDE/CF adapter and expect it to work on the other machine?
This is a bit tricky, I hope someone can help me.
Thanks!