Installing Ubuntu without CD or USB

The following article is helpful if ...
  1. ... you are one of those few lucky people who still has an antiquated machine without a CD drive or a boot-able USB thing (check) 
  2. ... you are running a very old version of Ubuntu - 8.04 (check) 
  3. ... and you don't want to do an incremental network upgrade all the way from 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.04 .. yawn .. to 11.10 (check)
Read this

(In a nutshell - installing Ubuntu using a spare partition from an existing Linux system to house the Ubuntu CD image).

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