With the growing mobile workforce, IT administrators who run their critical applications on Linux are now faced with the requirement to install Linux on laptops ...

MX Linux has been an absolute favorite for the last few months as it works under 500 MB of memory and minimal storage space.

So I want to install any distro on a laptop but the CD drive is broken. I've removed the HD and have put it into an external portable case. Is there anyway to essentially copy and paste an install ...

Did you make sure that the bios was set so it will boot from CD? That was my first thought when I read this. You probably did, but sometimes people forget to check that.