Raddish
November 21st, 2012, 04:42 PM
Hi,
I have a laptop which is unable to boot from USB (Bios limitation)
it also cannot read CD-Rs or any "home burnt" disks - it reads "factory" disks fine.
From some searching it would seem that I can install Ubuntu from the network - either from a local server (PXE?)on a machine here or from files on the internet - this is if I can create a linux bootable partition on my hdd & install grub to it, add/change some files and re-boot into a ramdisk which will then launch the ubuntu installer over the internet.
I'd prefer not messing with other machines locally to set up a install server so I'd prefer the internet solution.
The laptop has windows xp currently - I want to replace this with Ubuntu 12.04 (probably)
How do I create a linux partition (which flavour?) & install grub to it from within windows?
How do I then edit/replace the required files for the ramdisk boot?
I could really do with some pointers here please
Cheers
I have a laptop which is unable to boot from USB (Bios limitation)
it also cannot read CD-Rs or any "home burnt" disks - it reads "factory" disks fine.
From some searching it would seem that I can install Ubuntu from the network - either from a local server (PXE?)on a machine here or from files on the internet - this is if I can create a linux bootable partition on my hdd & install grub to it, add/change some files and re-boot into a ramdisk which will then launch the ubuntu installer over the internet.
I'd prefer not messing with other machines locally to set up a install server so I'd prefer the internet solution.
The laptop has windows xp currently - I want to replace this with Ubuntu 12.04 (probably)
How do I create a linux partition (which flavour?) & install grub to it from within windows?
How do I then edit/replace the required files for the ramdisk boot?
I could really do with some pointers here please
Cheers