Is there anyway to install linux without an usb?

[u/LeatherAd129]

So basically the usb I had got water damage and can't be used and I just went to the store in my village and they don't have any usb, so basically I can't acquire an usb.

[u/moverwhomovesthings]

Does your pc have a DVD drive? You can burn an ISO on DVD and use it to install linux the old school way

[u/LeatherAd129 → u/moverwhomovesthings]

Nah my shitty laptop doesn't have one.

Tho I heard from a friend (don't really trust him with tech tbh) that you can basically cut off chunk from your main storage and transform it into a secondary storage where you could storage the Linux version you wanna install, tho idk if that's true

[u/Lophkey]

If you have another working machine on the network use PXE boot (enable in your bios on machine you want to install on ) and you can use Iventoy I think it is to start a PXE network boot server on source machine for the iso you want to install just disable PXE boot after install is done on target.

If you don't have a network switch etc but 2 machines you can get a crossover cable to link 2 pcs via network ports and Iventoy PXE server sets and advertises it's ip from the menu

[u/fordry → u/Lophkey]

Modern, and by modern I mean basically the last 20 years, at least, Ethernet cards are mostly all capable of figuring it out on their own. No need for a crossover cable.

[u/AiwendilH]

There are several guide how to turn android phones in bootable usb devices. But never tried that so no clue how well that works.

edit: example here

[u/C0rn3j]

Order one online.

[u/Wide_Egg_5814]

There is a way to partition your drive so that there is a new partition formatted as a usb I used this method to install Ubuntu before but it was not fun and it does not work with all distros

[u/Ybalrid]

I’d recommend you wait for getting a new USB drive. Maybe buy one online.

There’s a bunch of other ways to try to boot a Linux installer. All of them are too complicated to bother with.

[u/banerxus]

Just go house by house asking to borrow a USB drive.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Law_242]

Simply install it from within Windows.

Q4OS with winsetup.exe.

Then you'll have a complete Debian system with Trinity, XFCE, or KDE.

To boot Q4OS from Windows, you typically use the special Q4OS Windows Installer (winsetup.exe) to install it within Windows, creating an easy dual-boot by adding Q4OS to the Windows boot menu, letting you select your OS at startup. After installation, you simply restart your PC, and the boot manager appears, letting you choose between Q4OS and Windows without complex

Before, repair the Bootloader for Windows, Remove the grub.