Ori, This link suggests 3 options:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-ubuntukubuntuedubuntuxubuntu-without-cdrom-drive.html And this post relates to your specific problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74386 Good luck! .:====================================================:. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .:====================================================:. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:16, Yedidyah Bar-David <linux...@didi.bardavid.org > wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:06:58AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: > > It seems that the DoK solution is not good for me. > > The computer I am trying to install on is IBM ThinkPad X31 and it seems > that > > it can't boot from DoK so although I have a working Ubuntu DoK I can not > use > > it for my computer. > > Does anyone have any idea how can I install Ubuntu on this computer > without > > a CD? > > If you have another computer on the network, you might consider a > network install, if your BIOS/NIC support PXE. > > > The computer already has an old version of Debian running on it. > > You can try and add to the grub menu the kernel and initrd of the Ubuntu > installation, and if all goes well that should do it. Copy the files to > /boot, duplicate an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, change the kernel and > initrd lines to point to the files you copied, and add to the kernel > command line whatever's that in the Ubuntu installer (you can find this > out e.g. by looking at their network installation instructions, if you > can't look at the boot files on the DOK). However, if you have a problem, > you won't be able to boot to some rescue CD to solve it. If it's an > important machine, I think I'd first make sure I have some other boot > device with useful rescue media. > -- > Didi > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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