Installing Ubuntu 12.04 via Netboot Install

[mpsoares]

Tiny (resolved) issue.
Hi! I decided to install Amahi on my old laptop which does not have optical drive or even floppy drive, so I had to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS via Netboot installer.
Ubuntu installation went smooth, but when I tried to run "

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sh install-amahi

", I had the following error message:

"The installer must stop here, sorry. Amahi is only supported on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Please download the latest 12.04 LTS version (e.g. 12.04.1)."

So, in order to successufuly install Amahi, I had to edit the install-amahi script, and replace the following line:

"

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if [ "$VERSION" != "12041" ]; then

" Changed to "

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if [ "$VERSION" != "12042" ]; then

"

So, I decided to post this in case someone gets stuck with the same problem

[bigfoot65]

Can you explain what you mean by 'Netboot installer'?

[mpsoares]

Can you explain what you mean by 'Netboot installer'?

Hi. I'll try to be as clear as possible, but please forgive me as I'm not a Linux expert.
As I mentioned, my old laptop doesn´t have a working optical drive and it doesn't boot from USB either, so in order to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I had to boot from network and install Ubuntu via network installer (https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installat ... -tftp.html) using this image http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ ... s/netboot/

Issuing

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cat /etc/issue

on my freshly installed Ubuntu, returned 12.04.2 making the install script unable to run. So I had to changed it.

[bigfoot65]

Understand. Most do USB install, so this is something I had not thought about for those with no CD/DVD drive. Glad it worked.