highkftj
November 28th, 2009, 03:55 AM
Hello to everyone,
I am new to linux and I want to move to this system after bad experiences with windows.
I have also a particular problem. An old laptop is probably able to handle just ubuntu at this point of its life.
The cdrom is gone, the bios doesn't have usb boot support, so I was wondering what other way I can have to install linux on a barebone hd (nothing on it). I thought about pxe and network, but that bios doesn't even support this.
so the only Idea I had was to copy some files on the hd via a ide cable adapter, connecting the laptop hd to the mobo of a desktop. I did the same in the past to install xp: I used msdos 7 to boot the machine and then launch the xp setup from withing the hd (copied before the installation files).
So my question is, can I do the same with linux? in such case, of course I will have a hd formatted with fat32 to boot in msdos, and what files should I copy on this partition and launch for the installation?
If this is not the best path to follow and some guru here can advise me a better way I am looking for his helps. I look on the net but everywhere at least they require a previous operative system on it or some kind of boot support (usb, cdrom, floppy...)
Thanks again :)
I am new to linux and I want to move to this system after bad experiences with windows.
I have also a particular problem. An old laptop is probably able to handle just ubuntu at this point of its life.
The cdrom is gone, the bios doesn't have usb boot support, so I was wondering what other way I can have to install linux on a barebone hd (nothing on it). I thought about pxe and network, but that bios doesn't even support this.
so the only Idea I had was to copy some files on the hd via a ide cable adapter, connecting the laptop hd to the mobo of a desktop. I did the same in the past to install xp: I used msdos 7 to boot the machine and then launch the xp setup from withing the hd (copied before the installation files).
So my question is, can I do the same with linux? in such case, of course I will have a hd formatted with fat32 to boot in msdos, and what files should I copy on this partition and launch for the installation?
If this is not the best path to follow and some guru here can advise me a better way I am looking for his helps. I look on the net but everywhere at least they require a previous operative system on it or some kind of boot support (usb, cdrom, floppy...)
Thanks again :)