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I have a 6 year old laptop which through the years lost a CD drive and doesn't have any options to boot using a USB stick.

I somehow managed to install Ubuntu using pxe boot taking the Ubuntu distro from us.archive.ubuntu.com.

When I start my system, I see that there is no UI available and when I do a uname I get the following:

Linux machinename 2.6.31-23-generic #75-Ubuntu SMP

I want to install Ubuntu with Gnome on my machine, and I have an .iso image of Ubuntu 10.04.

Is there a way to install another Ubuntu version (fresh install on a partition would also work) from within Ubuntu using .iso image?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

PS: Much better for me would be to install the Ubuntu netbook version or its better to install a simple Ubuntu desktop version?

Neeraj
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  • Try and see what works best for you. Maybe this link can give you some tips. You can try Ubuntu community flavours with light desktop environment (instead of the netbook version, which is no longer developed. – sudodus Jul 10 '18 at 22:24

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Since your old laptop has working network connectivity, it would probably be easier to install from the network:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Note that since the introduction of Unity, there is no longer a distinction between Ubuntu "netbook" and "desktop" editions.

Riccardo Murri
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