How to install Trisquel 9 without USB drive or DVD?
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I have Trisquel 8 and I want to start using Trisquel 9. I have no USB drive or DVD drive. I've downloaded the ISO. What should I do now? I can't see any instructions about this in the ISO or on trisquel.info.
Somewhere there ought to be a source from which to download the live trisquel (not the DVD,
but the software from the live installation DVD) but I couldn't find any such reference
with the Forum's search function or with an online search.
Failing that, does your computer have any input/output port, such as a parallel or serial
port ? If so there are inexpensive USB adapters available for purchase, the serial-to-USB
being the easier to find. The working USB port and an inexpensive 8GB flash drive will
work for the rest of the task.
If you have a network port, you can get a network-to-USB adapter (with a female network
cable socket) and a short male-to-male cable to connect the flash drive.
There are excellent instructions in this forum for installing the trisquel installation
software onto the USB-connected flash drive.
My computer has USB ports, I just don't want to have to buy a USB drive for this.
Thanks for looking into the live software idea for me. I wonder if there's a way for my computer to "pretend" that the downloaded ISO is a DVD or USB drive?
1. Use SD card
2. Network boot
3. Boot ISO from hard drive
4. Upgrade previous Trisquel installation in-place
https://www.howtogeek.com/196933/how-to-boot-linux-iso-images-directly-from-your-hard-drive/
https://www.howtogeek.com/57601/what-is-network-booting-pxe-and-how-can-you-use-it/
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/upgrade-80-90-questions#comment-157063
I tried this on a Trisquel 8.0 live DVD.
Trisquel Menu --> System --> Administration --> Software Updater
--The updater notifies there's a new release 9.0 available.
In the terminal:
sudo do-release-upgrade
... checks for a new release (if available).
My Software Updater used to say there was a 9 update available (I even tried it a while ago but it failed), but now it just says "Failed to download repository information. Check your Internet connection.". In any case, I'd now like to install Trisquel 9 on a new partition (if that's the right term), rather than updating Trisquel 8 in-place, so that I end up with both and can choose which to boot into. Thanks for your suggestions and links... I'm investigating "3. Boot ISO from hard drive" for this purpose.
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