I'm not familiar with the KPC, but in the past I have opened the box and attached a drive to the secondary connector on the hard drives cable. It has been a while obviously. Is there more drive connectors inside the box that may work? On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:40 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > I bought a KPC and want to convert it to Ubuntu. > > It doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. > > I tried getting it to boot from a USB thumb drive and from a CDROM > connected via USB, but those methods both failed. > > I also tried installing via lubi, but lubi depends on QT :( and Foresight > doesn't appear to have QT. > > Anybody else have a KPC? Did I not notice some simple BIOS option? > > I'm going to investigate the USB stuff again when I get time, but I > thought I'd see if anyone had been successful in re-installing a KPC. > > The thumb drive that came with the KPC has an installer and ISO image on > it, but it's Foresight and I specifically bought this system for Ubuntu. > > I do hope to pull up the original install in a VM, so I can play with > Foresight. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ https://LOPSA.org/ > # wouldn't that be "shopping is hard, let's do math"? > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >