[GRLUG] Installing Linux w/out CD Drive.

Tue Feb 24 20:47:29 EST 2009

Kisner, you have no reason to get defensive given the context of the
discussion, the fact that you asked for help, and that you didn't
provide sufficient context for your problem.  Your initial post
included with a logical fallacy "Needless to say, I'm less than
satisfied..." which is snarky and disrespectful to the folks who put
the work into making a useful computer cheap enough that you could
afford it.  If you're not going to pay for hardware to suit your
tastes, you have no right to complain.

In your first response to the thread, you shouted at the person who
replied to you.  Your second reply seemed to derisively laugh at the
people who'd offered you help.

Your reply to Adam included another insult to the folks who tried to
help you. ("Finally, a solution that doesn't involve a CD-ROM")  If
you'd actually READ Roberto's earlier reply, and googled for the terms
he suggested, you would have found out exactly what network booting
was.  Roberto's only mention of CDs was that he had managed to work
with a machine with a broken CD-ROM drive, which is suspiciously
similar to not having one at all.

Your reply to Rick was completely ignorant of the context of the
thread; He was pointing out that while your 256MB box with the CD-ROM
drive couldn't handle Ubuntu's GNOME-based installer, there is a
text-mode installer that doesn't use GNOME that can operate within
those requirements.  Not to mention that what he was talking about was
completely unrelated to the fact that your netbook is running Limpus
Linux Lite; There was no point to reminding him of that, and even less
in doing it snarkily.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Jason Kisner <airplanejay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Errg... Nevermind... -.- I'll look for help someplace else. Bye.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Jason Kisner <airplanejay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If I DID forget, the OS is Linpus Linux Lite. I don't like it and want it
>> gone.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Rick Vargo <rick at vargo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The alternative CD isn't a gui interface and therefore doesn't have
>>> that restriciton.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>> On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Jason Kisner 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?
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Rick Vargo <rick at vargo.org> wrote:
>>> > If it cannot run the "live" ubuntu CD because of the memory, try
>>> > downloading the alternative CD which is text based install.
>>> >
>>> > Rick
>>> >
>>> > On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Jason Kisner wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Ok. On the computer I'm trying to install to, there is no CD ROM
>>> > > drive. And I do not have a way to get a USB one sans forking up the
>>> > > money and ordering one, which I'm not willing to do. The computer
>>> > > that DOES have the CD DRIVE cannot RUN the start discs, but can open
>>> > > and explore them as data discs. it has less than 256 megs of RAM.
>>> > > (Also it isn't mine, so suggestions of getting more/upgrading the
>>> > > RAM are out of the question. So don't even say anything on that
>>> > > matter.)
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com>
>>> > > wrote:
>>> > > Not all older machines will boot from
>>> > > a USB device AFAIK.  i.e., The BIOS
>>> > > might not support it.  Maybe just something
>>> > > to keep in mind for older hardware.
>>> > >
>>> > >    -- Bob
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
>>> > > <awilliam at whitemice.org
>>> > > > wrote:
>>> > > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 23:07 -0500, Jason Kisner wrote:
>>> > > > I need help doing this. I just recently got an ACER AspireOne with
>>> > > > Linpus Linux Lite... Needless to say I'm less than satisfied with
>>> > > the
>>> > > > system, and I want to put Ubuntu on it. (I'd like to get to the
>>> > > newest
>>> > > > version, eventually) The thing is... it doesn't have a CD Drive
>>> > > (only
>>> > > > a little over 8 inches wide. and no room for one.) How do I do
>>> > this?
>>> > >
>>> > > Use a USB CD drive,  they work very well and every modern BIOS can
>>> > > boot
>>> > > from USB.  The CD/DVD drive in my laptop has been physically broken
>>> > > for
>>> > > some time and I've done all my installs/upgrades (openSUSE) from a
>>> > USB
>>> > > DVD drive.  Specifically an LG "External Super Multi DVD Rewriter"
>>> > > Model: GSA-E60L,  firmware version 1.00.   It also works great for
>>> > > burning single and dual layer disks.
>>> > >
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