That's what someone at work suggested. I think I will go that route.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan Stien</b> <<a href="mailto:nathanism@gmail.com">nathanism@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 6/15/07, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com">
tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have a pressed DVD of Edgy, and a burned copy of Feisty. For some reason,<br>> my laptop won't read the burned DVD (I've tried 2 burned discs with no<br>> luck), but it will read the pressed DVD. I have an external DVD drive that
<br>> can read the burned disc. In order to install KUbuntu, I could do one of 2<br>> things: 1. Install Edgy then upgrade later. 2. Boot Edgy, but install<br>> Feisty off the external DVD drive. It seems like I've heard of problems
<br>> with 1, so I'd like to do 2. Anyone know how to do this?<br><br>Why mess with DVDs? Just download the CD image of Feisty and install<br>that. Your laptop can boot burned CDs, right? All packages you would
<br>need you can just get via apt, with the front end of your choice.<br><br>You may not want to do this because you already burned the DVD, but<br>it's a sunk cost. Your life will be easier just using the CD, whether
<br>or not you already burned a DVD.<br><br>Most OS installs I have done have been some form of Debian netinst,<br>where the install image was small enough to fit on a business card<br>mini-CD, and the real meat and potatoes were loaded on-demand from
<br>apt.<br><br>--<br>Nathan P. Stien<br>Consulting Engineer / Software Developer<br>Embedded Systems Electronics and Software<br><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/nathanstien">http://linkedin.com/in/nathanstien</a><br>Mobile:
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