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Desperately need help installing Ubuntu optical drive-free

Asked by Chou

I have a ThinkPad 570. I used to run WinXP until my hard drive decided to fry. I just bought a new hard drive for it and I want to install Ubuntu or Xubuntu on it. However, I'm at a roadblock because:

a) I have no optical drives
b) I have no ethernet port
c) The hard drive is completely fresh and clean. No OS to support the install

How should I go about installing the OS onto this hard drive? As said, I have a ThinkPad 570. The stats are as follows:

PII - 366 MHz
192 Mb RAM
And of course... No OS present

HELP!

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Dean Sas (dsas) said : 		#1

Does no ethernet port mean you have no internet access at all?

The different ways to install are listed on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/ however I think you will probably have a hard time with this.

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Stani (stani) said : 		#2

If you can borrow another laptop with a cdrom, you can put your hardrive in it and install ubuntu. Change the graphics card to vesa in etc/X11/xorg.conf and put back the harddrive in your laptop. That's it.

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