Ubuntu Dok

[Amichai Rotman]

Ori,

This link suggests 3 options:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-ubuntukubuntuedubuntuxubuntu-without-cdrom-drive.html

And this post relates to your specific problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74386

Good luck!

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Amichai Rotman

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:16, Yedidyah Bar-David <linux-il at didi.bardavid.org
> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:06:58AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote:
> > It seems that the DoK solution is not good for me.
> > The computer I am trying to install on is IBM ThinkPad X31 and it seems
> that
> > it can't boot from DoK so although I have a working Ubuntu DoK I can not
> use
> > it for my computer.
> > Does anyone have any idea how can I install Ubuntu on this computer
> without
> > a CD?
>
> If you have another computer on the network, you might consider a
> network install, if your BIOS/NIC support PXE.
>
> > The computer already has an old version of Debian running on it.
>
> You can try and add to the grub menu the kernel and initrd of the Ubuntu
> installation, and if all goes well that should do it. Copy the files to
> /boot, duplicate an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, change the kernel and
> initrd lines to point to the files you copied, and add to the kernel
> command line whatever's that in the Ubuntu installer (you can find this
> out e.g. by looking at their network installation instructions, if you
> can't look at the boot files on the DOK). However, if you have a problem,
> you won't be able to boot to some rescue CD to solve it. If it's an
> important machine, I think I'd first make sure I have some other boot
> device with useful rescue media.
> --
> Didi
>
>
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