I bought a laptop off ebay the other day (£20 
) only to find the rom drive is dead. Ive bought another off ebay (£1 ) and its on its way.
Thing is im impatient and want to get xubuntu on it asap.
Is there a way of installing ubuntu over ethernet or a memory stick? Id imagine id need a floppy bootable distro just to get me started because I cant boot from my memory stick or ethernet.
Or if I plug my laptop hdd into my desktop can I copy stuff over to the hdd and install that way?
is this what you mean ?
Yes it is what im looking for. Thanks Donkey. Ive just found out my hdd is knackered! It was fine yesterday. There goes another £30!
no probs, trying *nix on USB PEN myself check out Bonzai, i found it on this *nix list
BTW: i think originally i googled something like “debian KDE” on googles *nix search
Edit: Bonzai has some security issues on their site, personally i enabled temp authorize co i’m not on win but i also closed their site straight after starting download
[ot]was it an old Maxtor HDD ?[/ot]
i would take a look at the packages nfsboot & nfsbooted
apt-cache show nfsboot nfsbooted[QUOTE=apt]
impotence@Revelation:~$ apt-cache show nfsboot nfsbooted
Package: nfsboot
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 76
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist [email protected]
Architecture: all
Version: 0.0.13
Recommends: dhcp, nfs-kernel-server | nfs-user-server, tftpd | tftpd-hpa | atftpd, bind
Suggests: grub, nis, dhcp-dns
Filename: pool/universe/n/nfsboot/nfsboot_0.0.13_all.deb
Size: 10084
MD5sum: 645ed3a3589340e15334900ec1c89c31
SHA1: 85ef03563f31972a0bcbf06a9f180aa69bbc978a
SHA256: 3c60dcb268682295cb0f8b5a9303ee040b90ca1dd0b7ba9e1501fe48e339fe3a
Description: Allow clients to boot over the network
This package help you to set up your host to allow clients to
boot over nfs.
.
This package should be installed on the server so that the clients
can connect to it. The package contains no server itself, but recommends
all packages that you will need in order to make nfsrooted clients
to work.
Bugs: mailto:[email protected]
Origin: Ubuntu
Package: nfsbooted
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 80
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist [email protected]
Architecture: all
Version: 0.0.14
Recommends: dhcp-client
Suggests: devfsd
Filename: pool/universe/n/nfsbooted/nfsbooted_0.0.14_all.deb
Size: 7616
MD5sum: b2027ac533f5ac54de0656ca7f613005
SHA1: cc36d32a48b4ec9d6931e37f434bd3065a5279a1
SHA256: dd2cacc6893965efdc021061ecd606ed5b170d1ec741ce9e527d9232461bee02
Description: Prepares your image for nfs boot
This package sets up your debian image to be booted from a nfs
server. There are a couple of things that are needed to do this
so that the different hosts do not conflict with each other.
Bugs: mailto:[email protected]
Origin: Ubuntu
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I haven’t used it yet, but i plan to see if i can get my laptop to netboot (or perhaps more amusing, become a netboot server with a preconfigured dban image :devilsdsd) as i have a foobared cd drive (But i get paid Wednesday, so i might finally get a DVD-RW & GPS on it)
a-men to that, i recently killed my setup (router), but back now
i don’t care, honest
BTW: will look @ nfsboot & nfsbooted when i get chance, thankies
BTW: wouldn’t you be getting a dual format drive or a blu-ray & possibly with built in GPS or am i not understanding
Come again? i don’t quite get what your asking! I’m going to buy a Dual layer DVD burner [which will also burn cd’s] and a usb GPS… i don’t think they even make blu-ray drives for my hacktop [I’ve dubbed it a hacktop because of how little of the original is remaining]
[QUOTE=Impy]
Come again? i don’t quite get what your asking! I’m going to buy a Dual layer DVD burner [which will also burn cd’s] and a usb GPS…
[/quote]
right, i assumed you were not getting a dual format drive, cos you put DVD-RW not DL RW + & -, sorry
BTW: i should have assumed you were not getting a plain DVD-RW
yeah, i can’t find any, so your right & i’m wrong as usual, need to check before i post,but thats too much like common sense for me, sorry for the confusion
BTW: i do feel like a plank (again), thankies for putting up with me, i could blame the brain damage, but i’ve always being a lot of a plank
Edit:
your as bad / mad as me, although the difference is: you know stuff & i can’t remember some stuff