[GRLUG] Installing Linux w/out CD Drive.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 22:22 -0500, Jason Kisner wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>         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.


> ??? How do I do this? I do have ethernet on both... (finally, a
> solution that doesn't involve a CD ROM) 

I have no idea on the specific steps for Ubuntu (don't use it).  But it
is usually pretty straight forward - boot from something (flash, floppy,
whatever) then pick network-install and tell the system where/how the
ISO image or CD filesystem is available.