Installing linux on a crippled machine via network boot?

Posted by networkbooter on Super User See other posts from Super User or by networkbooter
Published on 2010-03-20T12:52:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 16:31 UTC
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I have a somewhat ancient Toshiba laptop (which can't boot from USB) that I want to install linux on (probably Ubuntu).

I'm currently running Windows XP and Ubuntu via Wubi. I want to delete these OSs and replace with Ubuntu only.

The laptop does have a network boot option. I'm wondering if the easiest way might be to setup a network boot server on my other computer (which runs Ubunutu) and boot the laptop from it. Could this allow me to install Linux on the laptop?

I can't seem to find instructions on the 'net as to how to go about doing this.

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