problems with ubuntu

[KoopaScooper]

my disk drive dosnt work and i cant boot from USB

"all methods of installing from bootable media don't work so plz help me!!!"
Seriously. Fix that stuff you scrub.

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[Axo-Tak]

"all methods of installing from bootable media don't work so plz help me!!!"
Seriously. Fix that stuff you scrub.

What if his BIOS doesn't work and he can't afford another computer?

Does he have to reinstall windows and update his BIOS? Does he need to use CoreBoot which will possibly brick his computer? Does he need to use some other esoteric method that would require a lot of skill and the possibility of bricking his computer?

[KoopaScooper]

What if his BIOS doesn't work and he can't afford another computer?

Does he have to use CoreBoot which will possibly brick his computer?

That somehow ends up being my problem?
If he has a damaged BIOS he should have looked at how to repair it. Since the computer only has 1G of RAM, I'll assume it's too old to support USB Emulation. Try again.

[Axo-Tak]

Just use a Linux LiveCD tutorial.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+livecd

[KoopaScooper]

Just use a Linux LiveCD tutorial.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+livecd

my disk drive dosnt work

Seriously. Read.

[Axo-Tak]

Seriously. Read.

He could somehow make a RAMdisk installing LiveCD. Storage would be limited to around 768MB, though, and he'd have to keep the computer on.

[KoopaScooper]

Maybe extracting the squashfs to a small partition, creating a bootloader entry for it, then booting into that? not exactly sure how that would work, i need to test these things

[Axo-Tak]

Maybe extracting the squashfs to a small partition, creating a bootloader entry for it, then booting into that? not exactly sure how that would work, i need to test these things

SquashFS is read-only. That might work.

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arch + openbox | awesome, clearly

[D3ATH LORD]

well what should i get?

ps my disk drive dosnt work and i cant boot from USB

If you have another computer and a usb/IDE or eHDMI cable adapter, then you can make a ~700Mb partition on your hdd from the second computer, onto which you can place the installer image. Then you can boot into that partition and install your distro of choice onto the main partition.

That's what I did to get Debian onto my thinkpad, I think I made a topic ages ago about it back when I did it.

When you install the OS, the partition containing the distro image can be used to reinstall your system later on if you forget it up and have no replacement CD.

Also, probably Lubuntu. If you have a really old computer consider slackware. If you're not man enough for slackware that hardcore, then consider Arch. Post your damn PC specs already; otherwise we can't actually suggest anything informed, other than you can't run Ubuntu quickly.
TBH Ubuntu really isn't the Ubuntu it once was. Stopped being traditionally fast at 10.04 I think.