Want to install Ubuntu 7.04 on Computer without CD drive, using a download - How do I do this?

Hello,

do you have USB ports?

br
Mathias

Hi,

I checked and I do. I'm not sure how to get it to boot from there.

I have a USB stick that I could use (would the ISO file have to be the
only thing on it?) and I have an external hard drive that I can connect
via USB.

Would you be able to tell me how to set the bios to get it to boot from
the USB port? See there a site I can go to?

I currently have Fedora Core 3 running.

Thanks for your help,

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Nicole Jackson
<email address hidden>

Mathias Uebelacker wrote:
> Your question #13453 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/13453
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
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> Mathias Uebelacker requested for more information:
> Hello,
>
> do you have USB ports?
>
> br
> Mathia

Hello Nicole,

if you boot your machine you must hit a key or a combination of keys( maybe the Del key or F2 or Alt+F2, it depends on your machine. If you entered the bios setup you must look for a menu item which is called boot device. At this point you should be able to choice the entry boot from USB. If you changed the boot device save and exit the bios setup. If this is possible then do not change the settings before your finished your USB stick. ATTENTION THE FIRST STEP IS THE CREATION OF A BOOTABLE USB STICK.

So please do the first step an make your USB Stick bootable and then change the boot device.

a, your ubuntu live CD
b. a USB Stick with 1024 MByte
c. your PC must be able to boot from a stick (maybe check your bios)
d. run your ubuntu live CD

1. insert your stick
2. open a terminal
3. check the device name (for your stick) enter sudo fdisk -l in the terminal
    is really import that you identifies your stick (something like /dev/sda or /dev/sdb
4. enter sudo umount /dev/...your device1
5. enter sudo fdisk /dev/...your device
6. delete all partitions on your stick
7. create two new partitions (one with round about 700 MByte - for the ISO files, and a second with the rest space)
    after the start of fdisk select the number of the partition by pressing "d", create a new partition by pressing "n", enter "p" for a
    primarily partition and "1" for the first partition, enter "1" again to start your partition with the first cylinder, with "+750"
    knows fdisk the size of your partition, enter "a" to select a bootable partition, enter "t" to change the type of your partition,
    enter "6" for FAT16. Now the second partition enter "n" for a new one, "p" for primarily partition, "2" for 2. partition, press
    "Enter" to take the shown values, fdisk should build your second partition with the maximum size
8. now we format your first partition with a FAT16 filesystem and the name "ubuntuusb" enter:
    sudo mkfs.fat -F 16 -n ubuntuusb /dev/...your device1
9. now the second partition with a ext2 filesystem, Blocksize=4096 Byte, and the name ubuntulive enter:
    sudo mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L ubuntulive /dev/...your device2
10. mount your stick with sudo mount /dev/...your device1 /tmp/ubunutusb
11. change to your live CD with cd /media/cdrom (please check the correct name on your systen)
12. copy all necessary files to your stick with:
      sudo cp -rf ubuntu-live disctree dists install pics pool pressed .disk iso linux/* md5sum.txt README.diskdefines ubuntu.ico
      ubuntu-live/vmlinuz ubuntu-live/initrd.gz install/mt86plus /media/ubuntuusb
13. now change to your first usb partition and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg by enter:
      cd /tmp/ubuntuusb
      sudo mv isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg
14. now its time to make the stick bootable by installing syslinux und mtools:
      sudo apt-get install syslinux mtools
15. now remove the stick from your directory tree:
      cd
      sudo umount /tmp/ubuntuusb
      sudo syslinux -f /dev/...your device1

if all the stuff above works well you should be able to restart your PC and boot ubuntu from the stick

br
Mathias