[GRLUG] Installing Linux w/out CD Drive.

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Feb 22 22:08:30 EST 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 21:51 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> Assuming that the machine that has the specs isn't a laptop, what
> stops you from temporarily putting a working CD-ROM drive in it?
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jason Kisner <airplanejay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't put the linux I want on the computer that has the cd drive. It's
> > only 256 megs and the OS requires 512. I want to put it on the computer that
> > DOESN'T have a cd drive. That one CAN handle it, since it has a gig of ram.
> > Also, I want the gui. I'm not a cmd prompt person. IS there a way to install
> > it on the other computer WITHOUT a CD or not?

If you have ethernet in both machines you should be able to do a network
install.



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