[clug] Ubuntu on IBM X series laptops

[Mark Triggs]

Hey hey,

"Edward Lang" <edlang at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> 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 was in a similar situation recently, and came across this:
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html#grub-for-nt.
Admittedly, I never ended up trying it and arranged to netboot the
laptop instead :o)  There is also a DHCP/TFTP server for XP here:
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/.

Cheers,

Mark

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