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 <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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
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