I posted this to another newsgroup on the net and got a response that referred only to dual-booting. I hope this will elicit a different response.
I have a laptop that was running Windows 2000 Pro. I cannot boot from the DVD/CD-ROM, nor can I boot from a floppy and then access the DVD/CD-ROM drive, because they share the same ultrabay location. I really wanted
to switch this particular laptop to openSUSE 10.2.
I searched an ran across the instlux project
(
http://instlux.sourceforge.net).
This worked great, and I was able to install openSUSE 10.2 without having to boot from a floppy or a
DVD/CD-ROM drive. I completely wiped my W2K Pro install in the process and now have a complete running system.
openSUSE seems great and I have no issues with running this distro, but I am curious about this in case I might want to try the new Ubuntu release.
Is there a way to switch Linux distributions on the same laptop without having to boot from a floppy or the DVD/CD-ROM drive?
Can you start an Ubuntu installation while up and running openSUSE?
Or, maybe more appropriately, is there a utility, a project, or a feature of a Linux distribution that enables me to install a different distribution without having to boot from the DVD/CD-ROM drive?
When I installed Damn Small Linux on a much older laptop I was able to run loadlin from DOS and get the install completed.
Does loadlin run in Linux, and is this the way/only way to get this done?
Just to clarify:
I don't want to dual boot.
I don't want to run Ununtu as a virtual machine.
I want to install the new Ubuntu as if it were going on a brand new hard drive.
