[clug-talk] BootStrap Ubuntu Install with a floppy

[Dafydd Crosby]

On Mon, June 21, 2010 7:43 pm, Craig McLean wrote:
> 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.
>

You may be able to hack up ISOLINUX
(http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX), but I'm not totally
positive on that. Are you looking for something you can net install with?

-Dafydd