[clug-talk] BootStrap Ubuntu Install with a floppy

[Craig McLean]

Hello.

I have a Toshiba Portege R100.  This is a really thin laptop, that has no
internal CD drive.  It also doesn't really support external USB drives.  You
need a PCMCIA based CD-ROM to boot from CD.

Is there some kind of boot disk I can use to bootstrap the Ubuntu installer?
I've tried the "Smart Boot Manager" however it also needs BIOS support for
USB CD drives in order to work.

I know I could PXE boot this thing to get it moving, however at the moment
I'd prefer not to have to build all of that infrastructure.

I've done some googling and found a few schemes that involve multiple
partitions and lots of hand hacking.  This all seems far more complicated
than it should be.

Craig.