anandppatil
November 30th, 2009, 09:42 PM
Hi all,
I'm trying to rehabilitate a computer that has had a hard life. I bought a new hard disk for it and I'd like to install Ubuntu Karmic on it. Here are the constraints:
- The hard disk is dead
- The CD/DVD drive is dead
- The BIOS won't boot off a USB stick.
So currently I can't boot the thing at all. I could, however, pop the new hard disk into another Ubuntu machine, write data to it, and then try to boot off of it.
The only thread I've found from someone in a similar situation was this: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/115293-installing-ubuntu-boot-off-hard-disk.html in which the poster was advised to use netboot. Netboot looks pretty complicated. However, that thread is pretty old, and I'm wondering if there's an easier way by now?
Thanks,
Anand
I'm trying to rehabilitate a computer that has had a hard life. I bought a new hard disk for it and I'd like to install Ubuntu Karmic on it. Here are the constraints:
- The hard disk is dead
- The CD/DVD drive is dead
- The BIOS won't boot off a USB stick.
So currently I can't boot the thing at all. I could, however, pop the new hard disk into another Ubuntu machine, write data to it, and then try to boot off of it.
The only thread I've found from someone in a similar situation was this: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/115293-installing-ubuntu-boot-off-hard-disk.html in which the poster was advised to use netboot. Netboot looks pretty complicated. However, that thread is pretty old, and I'm wondering if there's an easier way by now?
Thanks,
Anand