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How to install linux on a hard drive to be used in a laptop
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05-09-2008 10:52PM#1Right. Have an old laptop without a floppy or cd-rom drive. The windows installation on the hard drive is corrupt. The laptop does have one usb port, but it is not bootable.
I've taken out the hard disk. I can connect the hard disk via a usb enclosure to my main pc
How do I install an OS (any really, I just thought linux would be easier) onto the hard disk so that I can install it back into the laptop and it will boot?
I've been out of the game for a bit, so a step-by-step guide would be great. Or a linky?
Much appreciated
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I think this one might prove useful
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
otherwise, you can use this guide:
http://ubuntufriends.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/install-ubuntu-on-external-usb-hard-disk/
Just be carefull with steps 7. and 8.
If it's old laptop, hard drive is ATA and probably will be referred as /dev/hda with "/" mounted on /dev/hda1 swap on /dev/hda2 and others partitions respectively In case of SATA drive, it will b sda1...
You may try executing "udo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" while working with live cd, to prepare for unexpected 0
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