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revenger681
February 9th, 2011, 05:59 AM
Hello.
Perhaps this was covered somewhere else, forgive me if it is... But I am wondering if there is a way to install ubuntu netbook edition completely from the WWW. I thought I had done it before (almost certain I did), but I might have done it with SuSE, not sure. I've googled and searched and haven't found instructions yet with Ubuntu. The articles I found were either installing from a local network and etc. but not from the world wide web.. Others had programs to download (which I might try) to get the installation rolling. I remember doing it the first time simply booting my laptop up (it's an old laptop), pointing it at some http or FTP server, and it downloaded the boot/install files from there and began installing packages right from the boot menu. I didn't have any programs installed on windows or anything else prior, if I remember correctly...

Can someone point me in the right direction?
Again I apologize, I'm sure it's here somewhere... But i've been searching for hours....

P4man
February 9th, 2011, 10:37 AM
Im not quite sure what you are trying to achieve. If you want a minimal install cd/stick to boot from and kickstart the installation, have a look here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

If you need a "no install medium" install, you would need a machine that supports booting PXE (or similar) network boot, but thats not routable over the internet AFAIK, and would probably be terribly slow anyway.