[clug] Ubuntu on IBM X series laptops
Nathan Robertson
nathanr at nathanr.net
Tue May 30 11:17:19 GMT 2006
Hello,
On 30/05/2006, at 9:53 PM, Arafangion wrote:
> Edward Lang wrote:
>
>> Anyone in Canberra experienced in putting Ubuntu on X series laptops,
>> sans
>> CD/DVD drive? I'm in the weak position of also having WinXP on my
>> desktop at
>> the moment so I can't kickstart an install that way, unless the
>> LiveCD
>> can
>> host network installs...
>
> I wonder if one could purchase one of those large USB keys, and put
> the
> LiveCD ISO onto them, and boot that?
A friend of mine has one of these laptops. We couldn't get the USB
key booting, and we ended up setting up a TFTP and bootp servers on
another machine, and netbooting it, then doing a network install. I
think we did this with Fedora Core 3 or 4 (can't remember), but it
worked fine.
I assume Ubuntu supports netbooting and network installing.
A fair while ago I used a tftp server on Windows that worked fairly
well - I'm pretty sure it was http://www.solarwinds.net/Tools/
Free_tools/TFTP_Server/
As for a DHCP server, it might be best to try to run ISC DHCP out of
CygWin. http://www.angelfire.com/linux/skip/dhcp/ seems promising.
Failing that, I'd grab VMWare player (free as in zero cost) for
windows from vmware.com, download a Linux image from them and install
a TFTP and DHCP/BOOTP server on that and do it the easy way.
Good luck.
Regards,
Nathan.
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