voodoo_child
October 28th, 2008, 10:09 PM
Can I 'preload' something onto a brand new hard-drive, and then put the hard-drive into a laptop and boot into it?
I ask because
-Ive no CD drive
-USB stick booting isn't supported
-Have no floppy drive
-Don't understand network booting
-The hard-drive is new, there's nothing on it, so I can't use the 'install from within windows' methods.
So... can I connect the brand new hard-drive to another computer (using a 2.5" caddy), and put *something* (im not sure what, a bootloader?) onto it, to enable me to then put the new HD into the laptop and create a working ubuntu system from it?
For example, could I put a bootloader onto the clean HD, and then use that to go to the USB stick and load a liveCD iso?
I ask because
-Ive no CD drive
-USB stick booting isn't supported
-Have no floppy drive
-Don't understand network booting
-The hard-drive is new, there's nothing on it, so I can't use the 'install from within windows' methods.
So... can I connect the brand new hard-drive to another computer (using a 2.5" caddy), and put *something* (im not sure what, a bootloader?) onto it, to enable me to then put the new HD into the laptop and create a working ubuntu system from it?
For example, could I put a bootloader onto the clean HD, and then use that to go to the USB stick and load a liveCD iso?