[YLUG] Installing Ubuntu without CD or USB

[Chunky Kibbles]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:05:16PM -0000, David Ross wrote:
> Okay this is an odd one.  I have a hobbled machine.  It's a fairly recent
> Sony Vaio which I'd like to reuse.  Even though it's recent it won't book
> via USB.  And the real issue is that the CD driver has failed, and I'm not
> likely to dork out for another.  So I have no USB, and a non-working
> internal CD drive.
> 
> It has Windows XP and so I could use that to execute something, and I have a
> LAN connection.
> 
> So the question is, what's the easiest route to getting this running
> something useful?

Pull the hard drive and put it in a non-hobbled machine?

Gary (-;