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From: our.spare.account on 29 Jun 2008 13:44 Hi, I have an old laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that currently has Win2K on it. I want to replace this OS with Kubuntu but am slightly limited seing that the laptop no longer has a CD/DVD drive. What are my options (except for new cd drive etc...) ? Thanks, Leo
From: John Hasler on 29 Jun 2008 14:02 <http://goodbye-microsoft.com/download.html> -- John Hasler john(a)dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Stefan Patric on 29 Jun 2008 14:39 On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:44:23 -0700, our.spare.account wrote: > I have an old laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that currently has Win2K on it. > I want to replace this OS with Kubuntu but am slightly limited seing > that > the laptop no longer has a CD/DVD drive. > > What are my options (except for new cd drive etc...) ? In lieu of another boot drive like a floppy, your choices are limited. If your notebook has a USB port and can boot from it, some Linux distros can be installed using a flash drive. But in your situation, the easiest thing would be to remove the hard drive, hook it to another system with a booting CD/DVD drive, do a partial, but bootable install; reinstall the drive, boot, and complete the install over the Internet or a local network. Linux distros with this option (network install) have detailed instructions on their web sites on how to do this. I think Ubuntu (and its variants) have this option. Stef
From: Michael Mauch on 29 Jun 2008 17:08 our.spare.account(a)gmail.com wrote: > I have an old laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that currently has Win2K on > it. > I want to replace this OS with Kubuntu but am slightly limited seing > that > the laptop no longer has a CD/DVD drive. > > What are my options (except for new cd drive etc...) ? http://wubi-installer.org/ Michael
From: F8BOE on 1 Jul 2008 14:53
our.spare.account(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that currently has Win2K on > it. > I want to replace this OS with Kubuntu but am slightly limited seing > that > the laptop no longer has a CD/DVD drive. > > What are my options (except for new cd drive etc...) ? > > Thanks, > Leo Hello, If you're lucky enough to have a floppy drive and a NIC integrated, you could get Debian from the 5 Debian floppies to make a net install. It works pretty well if there is enough RAM to get a GUI. Simple DVD+-R(W) slim drives beginning at 39� are also a good investment. If you can get more than 256 MB RAM it would be perfect to run any XFCE or Gnome desktop... KDE is better beginning with 512 MB RAM. Ciao @+ |