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From: John Varela on 5 Mar 2010 21:35 I run an iMac and, within that, OS/2 (as you can see from my headers). I just bought a Samsung N150 netbook with the idea of installing Linux on it. This computer has no CD drive and will not boot from a USB source. I have been into the BIOS set-up and it will ONLY boot from the hard drive. I've tried Googling and can't seem to formulate a query that finds anything useful, so I come to this group to ask: Is there a Linux distribution that can install by launching the set-up from Windows 7? Preferably Linux would reside in a separate partition and allow booting into either Win 7 or Linux. This needs to be a high reliability installation system, because it appears that if the Win 7 partition is screwed there is no way to recover. -- John Varela
From: Bill Marcum on 5 Mar 2010 22:17 On 2010-03-06, John Varela <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote: > I run an iMac and, within that, OS/2 (as you can see from my > headers). > > I just bought a Samsung N150 netbook with the idea of installing > Linux on it. > > This computer has no CD drive and will not boot from a USB source. I > have been into the BIOS set-up and it will ONLY boot from the hard > drive. > > I've tried Googling and can't seem to formulate a query that finds > anything useful, so I come to this group to ask: > > Is there a Linux distribution that can install by launching the > set-up from Windows 7? > I don't know exactly how that Ubuntu Wubi works, but it might be a possibility. Or you could put the hard drive into another computer and install Linux (that might void the warranty).
From: Lew Pitcher on 5 Mar 2010 23:10 On Mar 5, 10:17 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb...(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: > On 2010-03-06, John Varela <newla...(a)verizon.net> wrote: > > > I run an iMac and, within that, OS/2 (as you can see from my > > headers). > > > I just bought a Samsung N150 netbook with the idea of installing > > Linux on it. > > > This computer has no CD drive and will not boot from a USB source. I > > have been into the BIOS set-up and it will ONLY boot from the hard > > drive. > > > I've tried Googling and can't seem to formulate a query that finds > > anything useful, so I come to this group to ask: > > > Is there a Linux distribution that can install by launching the > > set-up from Windows 7? > > I don't know exactly how that Ubuntu Wubi works, but it might be a > possibility. Or you could put the hard drive into another computer and > install Linux (that might void the warranty). WUBI builds a Linux filesystem within an NTFS file. It then installs a loader option (IIRC, using the Windows boot loader) to load and execute the Linux kernel in the Linux filesystem. This permits the end-user to select Windows or Linux at boot, and keep separate OS implementations without disturbing the Windows environment. The OP might find this useful. If not, then I'd go with your additional hard-drive suggestion.
From: David W. Hodgins on 5 Mar 2010 23:10 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:35:48 -0500, John Varela <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote: > This needs to be a high reliability installation system, because it > appears that if the Win 7 partition is screwed there is no way to > recover. If there's enough ram, and the system is fast enough, I'd run linux under VirtualBox. No risk of making the system unbootable. Either that, or temporarily transfer the hard drive to a computer that can boot from dvd, for the install. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: Michael Black on 5 Mar 2010 23:15
On Fri, 6 Mar 2010, John Varela wrote: > I run an iMac and, within that, OS/2 (as you can see from my > headers). > > I just bought a Samsung N150 netbook with the idea of installing > Linux on it. > > This computer has no CD drive and will not boot from a USB source. I > have been into the BIOS set-up and it will ONLY boot from the hard > drive. > That seems unlikely. Try plugging a USB device into the netbook, see if booting from USB becomes an option then. When I got my Aspire One, I recall reading some comment somewhere about not being able to boot from USB, and I even seem to recall not seeing the option in the BIOS. Yet I can boot from USB, so without fulling remembering what happened, I assume I needed to plug in a USB flash drive before I could change the boot option. Michael > I've tried Googling and can't seem to formulate a query that finds > anything useful, so I come to this group to ask: > > Is there a Linux distribution that can install by launching the > set-up from Windows 7? > > Preferably Linux would reside in a separate partition and allow > booting into either Win 7 or Linux. > > This needs to be a high reliability installation system, because it > appears that if the Win 7 partition is screwed there is no way to > recover. > > -- > John Varela > > |