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Ok my CD drive is busted so i cant install anything off a CD (i only have an external one and it wont help during installs (plus i have no ...
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    Help with installing Debain!!! Please!!!!

    Ok my CD drive is busted so i cant install anything off a CD (i only have an external one and it wont help during installs (plus i have no blank CDs). Alough it would be great if i could get linux installed from a usb drive (or even floppys).

    Now when i run http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ its goes thro everything and then needs to restart to begin. When it restarts i choose the debian installer but it says some crap like 'Errror not all GRLDR devices found' or something and makes me restart.....

    Whats going on?

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    That is a relatively new project and is therefore prone to errors. You may want to look into buying a cheap cdrom to complete the installation (plus, you will probably want one afterwards).
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    You could always try using floppies or a usb flash drive:

    4.3. Creating Floppies from Disk Images
    http://www.debian.org/releases/testi...h04s03.html.en

    Or you could try:
    Instlux: Upgrade your windows
    http://instlux.sourceforge.net/

    Which is similar to the good-bye installer.

    Probably wouldn't hurt to look at the Ubuntu project that is where the idea for the good-by project came from:
    install.exe - Ubuntu Wiki
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/install.exe

    GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB
    http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/main.html
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