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Re: [LUG] Interesting situation...

 

Neil Stone wrote:
> A guy at work has come to me with an interesting situation...
>
> He has a laptop on which he would like GNU/Linux installed (he wants SuSe,
> but i'm trying to avoid RPM based if I can)
>
> Problem, the CD drive is knackered... the machine can't boot from USB....
>
> Is there an easy way I can load up a disk image (or similar) on to the
> hard disk (which I have on a USB dongle right now) to plug in and install
> a distro...? (I was pondering Ubuntu, and no I don't care what people say
> about it not being "totally free")
>
> Regards
>
> Neil
>
>   

Does it have a floppy drive?  if it does then perhaps a net install 
would work

Paul


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