Installing Linux alongside W7 without a cd or thumbdrive?

[Edman]

Anyone have any information on this? Thanks guis!

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[Max4344]

You must have one of those or an sd card to install linux.
If size is a problem do a net install.

[Night Fox]

pretty sure you'll need something else for it to be installed on, like a thumbdrive or a second hard drive
or you can just make a partition with your current one, if you feel that it's large enough
in either situation, all you have to do is download the thing onto whatever you want to install it on, afaik
I'm willing to bet that it depends on what distro you're using tho

[Trinick!]

You can't. You have to boot to Linux directly, which means it has to be booted off some kind of removable media.

If you've got a spare floppy disk you may be able to fit Damn Small Linux on it depending on the size.

[dorkdotdan]

You can't. You have to boot to Linux directly, which means it has to be booted off some kind of removable media.

If you've got a spare floppy disk you may be able to fit Damn Small Linux on it depending on the size.

Puppy Linux is another alternative if DSL doesn't work.

[lcyGamma]

You can boot off of any storage device through USB on any modern computer.

USB hard drive or optical drive. Buy a disc and burn it, or pick up a cheap thumb drive-- it costs nothing.

I don't know about SD card booting.

There shouldn't be any situation in which you can't boot from a thumb drive. Its a bizarre thing to require.

[DrenDran]

I swear I remember just downloading a program for ubuntu on windows, running it, restarting, and being able to finish the instal without needing a disk.

[dorkdotdan]

I swear I remember just downloading a program for ubuntu on windows, running it, restarting, and being able to finish the instal without needing a disk.

You did, it's called Wubi and is available on the Ubuntu website.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer

[lcyGamma]

Its Ubuntu specific though isn't it.

[DontCare4Free]

Its Ubuntu specific though isn't it.

There's also http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ for Debian, and openSUSE has an equivalent built-in.

[¥ola]

If you're sure you want to go with Ubuntu, Wubi.exe will partition your hard driver and install the latest version of Ubuntu on your Windows 7 PC, as well as letting you choose which one to boot from upon starting your computer.

It's what I use.

[DontCare4Free]

If you're sure you want to go with Ubuntu, Wubi.exe will partition your hard driver and install the latest version of Ubuntu on your Windows 7 PC, as well as letting you choose which one to boot from upon starting your computer.

It's what I use.

WUBI does not actually do any partitioning, it creates a virtual disk image on one of your regular partitions.

[¥ola]

WUBI does not actually do any partitioning, it creates a virtual disk image on one of your regular partitions.

Was thinking of something else, sorry.

[zackin5]

I've heard bad things about Wubi, I wouldn't use it unless you're looking forward to a broke as hell install of Ubuntu.

[DrenDran]

I've heard bad things about Wubi, I wouldn't use it unless you're looking forward to a broke as hell install of Ubuntu.

It my have been what crashed my pc, but that was a year later.