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Jacques Moineau
June 17th, 2008, 03:02 AM
Greetings Ubuntu Community,

My attempt to re-join the Linux world seems to have been thwarted by a failed CD drive on my Thinkpad R31. I did resize Windows partition, and created linux swap and linux primary partitions before failure. However the device failed before the Ubuntu installation finished.

Now having no other device to boot from, except HDD, is it possible to install from the active Windows XP partition? Or, should I say, is it possible for a relative novice to do it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jacques

Pumalite
June 17th, 2008, 03:06 AM
This might help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows

Jacques Moineau
June 19th, 2008, 02:30 PM
Thank you! I have studied this and it appears quite daunting...perhaps better to replace CD drive and proceed with CD installation.

Cheers
Jacques

Pumalite
June 19th, 2008, 10:29 PM
You are welcome. Good luck.

d.celestine
July 17th, 2008, 03:12 AM
Try to run a HTTP install

killernat
July 17th, 2008, 03:51 AM
i had relative ease installing from widows i downloaded the iso from ubuntu site b4 hand i had installed deamon tools light a cd emulator and ran the iso file with no problom just installed inside windows