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How can i install Ubuntu without a cd drive, USB boot device or any other method mention on this site??

Asked by lludacrisboy

I have a sony vaio PCG-SR7K laptop without a CD drive, Floppy, it cant boot from a USB device and the hard drive is blank completely. Is there a way to take the drive out of the laptop (whiuch isnt hard) and hook it up to my computer so that i can some how copy over the Ubuntu O.S. so then when it boots on the sany laptop it will reconize the O.S. and work? i dont have any other method every method that is mentioned on this website does not work for me. please help.

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Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#1

Hello,

please check your bios and look for the possibilities to boot from lan.

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Mathias

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lludacrisboy (lludacrisboy) said : 		#2

there is no ethernet plug on it. lol its only got a phone jack. im sorry

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phlegm (daveshome) said : 		#3

You could take the drive out and do an install on another system that is bootable then move it back when done and hope it autodetects the hardware.

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lludacrisboy (lludacrisboy) said : 		#4

i can get the hard drive out. is there a way to mount the O.S. virtually with like Daemon tools and install it on the drive and then put the drive back into the laptop?

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lludacrisboy (lludacrisboy) said : 		#5

i think i have stumped everyone with my problem. lol Thanks for your help ill prob just trash the laptop.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#6

if you can take the hard-drive out you will need to hook it upto a normal computer with a cd-drive (might want to unconnect that computers hard-drives also), put an ubuntu live-cd into the cd-drive (also making sure to set the cd-drive to the first boot device) and install the system onto that hard-drive. then you can take it out, put it back into the laptop and it should boot up. there is a good chance that since you have different hardware in the two computers you will need to run this command once it boots up.
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg"

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lludacrisboy (lludacrisboy) said : 		#7

OK i did that. and it worked great up until the point where i put the drive back into the laptop. I installed Ubuntu no problem but now that its back in the laptop, i set the bios to boot off the hard drive, and it wont. it just sits with the blinking cursos in the top left and i cant type anything. i donno please help youve been a big help thus far.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#8

hrmm do you not get any output whatsoever? anything happening? no messages? do you get to the bios?
you may have to try to hook up a regular cd-drive to the laptop somehow to install that way.

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lludacrisboy (lludacrisboy) said : 		#9

No message whats so ever. i can get to the bios but i cant do much or change much in it. It just goes to the Post screen to the blinking cursor. i dont have a cd drive cause this laptop is so old lol thats why i wanted to do this cause i thought it would work without a drive.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#10

if it is so old that it doesn't have a cd-drive then there is a good chance that it does not meet the minimum specifications to run ubuntu. you should maybe try looking into something less resorce intensive like xubuntu (maybe.. prolly not) or damn small linux

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