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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:44 +0100, 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 > > I had the same problem. I took the drive out and put it into a different laptop > that has a working CD drive, > installed it there and then put it back. This worked fine and quickly. The laptops > were completely different makes and models. > I did this with a standard Kubuntu installation - 6.10. Viv -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html