change filesystem and OS on a vaio without optical drive

Rupertt · 02-24-2008, 02:17 AM

Hello,
I have a small sony vaio without any drives or ability to boot from USB.
I would like to change the installed Ubuntuo 6.x to the newst hardy relese, the filesystem is ReiserFS.
So can I somehow change this?

thx

budword · 02-24-2008, 02:36 AM

Can it network boot ? Another option is to update your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the version of ubuntu you want, but you might break stuff, as they say, YMMV.

Good luck...

David

budword · 02-24-2008, 02:59 AM

Oh, this should do the trick...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4390192

You can download it here...

http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html

anupamsr · 02-24-2008, 04:33 AM

Do you have windows? If yes, see here: http://wubi-installer.org/

Rupertt · 02-24-2008, 09:50 AM

sorry but i missed to mentin that that thing does not have a ethernet port.
IT is apcg-c1vfk with crusoe CPU

I thought maybe I can resize the partition online and than replace the OS with some kind of bootloader that than can get its stuff from a USB harddrive, but wait reading the unetboot page says something about predownloaded content. great thats it i think·..

thx