[GRLUG] Installing Linux w/out CD Drive.

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:22:24PM -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)

"Finally?"  Didn't Roberto suggest this very method a couple days ago?
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