Comment 13 for bug 1207059

Christopher, that is a good question. The official documentation describes clearly that an optical media drive of some sort is needed (http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/g4uj17uc.txt). Perhaps that is the exact truth, or perhaps it is just something that is very nearly true, but the average Windows user will not have a 'dd' near to hand to try. (They also do not mention "hybrid images", as our Ubuntu images are.)

The annoying thing is I presume it just boots Linux to get the job done anyway, because it's free and Just Works.

I also don't have any USB sticks I trust at this point -- the last time I needed one to install Ubuntu, none worked.

Either way it's a shopping trip.

Thanks :)