i want ubuntu

[slam888]

ok here my story...
got my sony vaio pcg-z600lek laptop with no cd drive or floppy and cant boot from usb.

i managed to get dsl (damn small linux) to run on it (took me long time but i did it very simply).

but what i really want is xubuntu or ubuntu on it.

i seen form where u can do this but they are using windows.
is there a toutoral on how to doing via linux.

thanks for your help.

[Maheriano]

go to www.ubuntu.com and download a live CD for your system. Burn the .iso to a disc, pop it into the drive, reboot, install.

[avtolle]

Have you looked at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromLinux or considered unetbootin?

[avtolle]

As the OP posted, he has no CD drive.

[taurus]

Maybe one of these methods would work for you.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation#Server and network installations

[yther]

Wow, a challenge! :D

I don't know the exact details, but possibly this will give a spark to someone who does. There is something called "memdisk" that basically loads at boot time and then hands control over to a disk image; the image can be of a floppy or CD or whatever. It works like a kernel, so you can load it using GRUB. I use this at work to boot DOS from a USB drive and then fool it into thinking it started from a floppy.

So I'm thinking you could do something like this:


Get hold of memdisk somehow (here's its home site (http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project), maybe it's available in DSL).
Add it to GRUB menu.
Download an Ubuntu ISO onto the Vaio.
Configure memdisk to load the ISO.


I think that should get you started. Probably someone else has an easier way... ;)

Edit: See the post above me, I was right! The "Install from Internet" method is probably what you want.

[Therion]

I'm not saying one of the above methods WON'T work, but I'd strongly suggest you get an external CD/DVD burner. How much is your sanity worth to you?

[slam888]

find a external cd drive for my laptop is hard. it only accept one type of cd drive. if i cud use a cd drive i wud. it be much easier.
on my laptop boot menu it only lists:
ATAPI CD-ROM Drive
Diskette Drive
Hard Drive.

i've taken my laptop apart 10 times just to get damnsmalllinux on it. now i want to keep it in my laptop before my laptop dies completely.

going to try unetbootin linux. hope it work :P

[Maheriano]

Easy. Take out the hard drive, put it in a desktop, install, put it back in the laptop.

[dabomb1022]

Just search google for virtual box and you can use it to run any ISO's you need (like ubuntu) or open wubi.exe inside the ubuntu ISO and you can install

[slam888]

i wud install in back to my desktop then install ubuntu but then it wouldnt have all the laptop drivers in place and loads of erros.
i did try grub usb boot but wasnt possible because my bio wudnt detect my usb pen drive.
grrr mite jsut use damn small linux for now