Linux i386 equivalent?


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This is going to sound silly, but I have a machine with no optical drives what so ever. How would I go about installing Linux on this machine? The machine has network access and Windows XP already installed, and I plan on setting it up as a dual boot. Is there a i386 file equivalent in the Linux .iso that I could copy to this machine in Windows, and run via that route?

I'm currently downloading a distro now, and I'm not yet able to get into all the files just yet. I'm just a little impatient, and wanting to get this question cleared up while I wait for the download to finish.

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I've seen Wubi suggested before, and it looks interesting. However, I'd rather just have Linux on it's own drive (I've got a second one set aside) and use it's own boot loader to choose between Windows and Linux.

I should be able to do this, right? Couldn't be much different than installing Windows from the copied over CD...

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You can do a network install. I know that Red Hat & Fedora support installing from a hard drive file, but you would still have to boot from network, floppy or such.

Alternatively, if you can pull the hard drive out, and put it in another computer temporarily, you can perform the install that way, then move the drive back to the original PC.

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