Installing Ubuntu on Phillips CD-ROM: Can I Use an External Drive?

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The discussion focuses on installing Ubuntu on a computer with an incompatible Phillips CD-ROM. Users explored the possibility of using an external CD drive, but the computer does not support booting from it. Alternative methods, such as installing directly from the hard drive, were attempted but resulted in a GRUB prompt. Suggested commands to resolve the issue include "root (hd0,1)", "setup (hd0)", and "quit" before rebooting.

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I tried installing Ubuntu on my computer. Turns out that the CD-ROM is not compatible with it (it's phillips). Can I install it from an external CD drive (my computer does not boot from external CD Drives)? If so, how?
I don't have a floppy drive so I can't use boot floppies.

I also contemplated installing straight from the harddrive as documented https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/FromWindows" .

However this isn't working either as on boot, it just shows me the
Code: 
grub>

prompt.

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
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Try entering these commands at the grub> command line and see if it helps

Code: 
 root (hd0,1)
 setup (hd0)
 quit

Then you can reboot with ctrl-alt-del
 

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