Any way to boot an ubuntu installation from ethernet?

[MrNatewood]

I have an old compaq armada m300 laptop.
It has no floppy, no cd and no way to boot from usb.
Recently the windows install on the hd broke and cannot boot at all.

The only alternative way to boot it is "from ethernet"

How can I do that?
Is there a way to install ubuntu(or any other distro) in that way?

[ABCC]

I have an old compaq armada m300 laptop.
It has no floppy, no cd and no way to boot from usb.
Recently the windows install on the hd broke and cannot boot at all.

The only alternative way to boot it is "from ethernet"

How can I do that?
Is there a way to install ubuntu(or any other distro) in that way?

What you're looking for is called pxe-booting. It's possible to boot Ubuntu from a linux or even a windows pc, provided you're willing to do some tweaking first. Have a look at http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/10/11/how-to-configure-pxe-network-booting-on-ubuntu-for-network-based-installations/ or if you've only got windows http://hugi.to/blog/archive/2006/12/23/ubuntu-pxe-install-via-windows. As always if at first it isn't clear, read another howto.

Have fun,

ABCC

[MrNatewood]

Thank You :)

Will try that