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Instlux

martin84 · 2007-06-08 09:08:39

had a old laptop that I wanted to get up and running with Linux. no floppy, cd-rom or bootable usb. So i found this app Instlux. Its brilliant. Basically is just a small .exe thats creates a boot loader and then when ya reboot it starts a SuSe network install. Just thought id give it a mention also does Ubuntu. :)…

08-06-2007 10:08AM

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martin84

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had a old laptop that I wanted to get up and running with Linux. no floppy, cd-rom or bootable usb. So i found this app Instlux. Its brilliant. Basically is just a small .exe thats creates a boot loader and then when ya reboot it starts a SuSe network install. Just thought id give it a mention
also does Ubuntu.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/instlux

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#2 08-06-2007 02:47PM

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Nice. PXE is such a whore to set up.

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#3 08-06-2007 04:22PM

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Ya I was having a look at PXE, defiently not the easiest option.

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#4 08-06-2007 07:30PM

zekiel

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ahh tyvm.. this is just the type of app I've been looking for, for much the same reason an old laptop I have sitting here. Cheers!

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