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

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Installing Ubuntu can be challenging if the CD-ROM is incompatible, as experienced with a Philips drive. Using an external CD drive may not be an option if the computer does not support booting from it. An alternative method is to install directly from the hard drive, as outlined in Ubuntu's documentation. However, encountering the "grub>" prompt indicates a potential issue with the bootloader. To resolve this, users can try entering specific commands at the grub prompt: "root (hd0,1)", "setup (hd0)", and then "quit" before rebooting with Ctrl-Alt-Del. This approach may help in successfully booting into the installation process.
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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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