How to Install OS Without a CD or Floppy Drive. When buying a new computer or laptop, the latest operating system is often already installed. If not, and you have the original media that the OS is ...

Burning a Live CD or USB Stick There are a few different methods for installing Linux on your computer, but generally, the most popular way is by downloading and burning a live CD (which has its ...

If you want to boot into a live Linux environment but don't have a blank CD or thumb drive handy, you can actually boot right from your hard drive using GRUB and previously mentioned Unetbootin.