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   Subject: Re: Network Install of Ubuntu?   
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   Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:30:00 GMT   
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   * Joe LaVigne wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:42:25 -0800, Eugene MacCaslin wrote:   
      
   >> Can you get a usb port on the laptop?  Can you boot from a usb device on   
   >> the laptop.  If you can do that you can get a CD that will boot and   
   >> install from the external CD drive.   
      
   > No, USB boot is not an option.  Old laptop, cannot boot from USB.   
      
   > I have taken the coward's way out, though, and purchased the External   
   > drive cable from E-Bay, and will be installing Xubuntu with the CD Drive   
   > from my Wife's laptop...   ;-)   
      
   Damn, I was hoping for one of those SOLVED: posts :(   
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