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    install without CD..?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Christiand, Jan 6, 2008.

  1. Christiand

    Christiand Notebook Enthusiast

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    Trying to install Ubuntu on my laptop. I have a lenovo x61. It's a super small laptop, and unfortunately don't have a optical drive built in. You can get one with the added base, but that's $200 =\

    To reinstall vista I bought an IDE -> USB cable and used a spare cd rom drive lying around, but lately it's been giving me issues and I can't boot from it to install Ubuntu.

    I thought I might copy the contents over to an external hard drive and run it manually from DOS. Getting to DOS has now become an issue with no floppy drive and not being able to successfully boot from CD...

    Any ideas on how to approach it?
     
    Christiand, Jan 6, 2008
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    vashts121 Notebook Evangelist

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    Download Wubi (Windows UBuntu Installer)

    You can install the same way as the live CD, but on Windows.
     
    vashts121, Jan 6, 2008
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    Christiand Notebook Enthusiast

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    timberwolf Notebook Consultant

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    Amol APH! NBR Reviewer

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    Or you mosey over here and install Mint. Mint is Ubuntu + Bunch-of-media-codecs. In other words, Ubuntu + more.
     
    Amol, Jan 7, 2008
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    Ubunta is sweet. >>> we were running a dual boot of vista/ubunta, but had a lot of problems. ununta is a sweet program and of you install "wine" or any of the other programs to help you install vista- it will be sweet.......
     
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    In some BIOSes(I haven't tried this) You can set it to boot from an external drive like you do CD drives.
     
    Thomas, Jan 7, 2008
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