On 15/09/10 16:22, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > I couldn't see the option to install inside windows, anything else I could > try, other than using PXE
I have managed to install on a machine which had similar issues to yours by adding an entry to the boot.ini to point to a linux loader (grub4dos I think) which then loaded the kernel and initrd which I'd copied to the hard disk, and that allowed me to continue the install as normal. That worked because after I had managed to boot, the kernel could see the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive with the rest of the installer files on it. It should also work with a USB stick or other storage device with an Ubuntu liveCD image on it. This method could probably be made to work - indeed I would expect someone to have documented it somewhere on the web by now. <googles> The idea is documented under the section "Windows NT/2000/XP (using Grub)" here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows If that isn't helpful, I could have a go at writing it up myself, but I'll need to ask several questions about your windows install if you want to go down that route. Another way would be to see if you could set up the boot.ini to run something like Plop as a boot loader, and see if that can see the USB stick well enough to boot from it. None of these methods are really as complicated as they sound once you have done them the first time - they are just more difficult to document that to do. -- JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
