[clug-talk] BootStrap Ubuntu Install with a floppy

[Gustin Johnson]

On 10-06-21 07:43 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.
> 
Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
http://boot.kernel.org/index.html#howtouse

You may also want to look in to Debian instead of Ubuntu, there should
be a netboot floppy image.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

You could also put the hard drive into a different machine (with an
adapter or USB dongle, do the install, and then move the hard drive
back.  The -generic kernel images that Ubuntu uses should boot on any
x86 machine.  This is not Windows after all :)

Hth,

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