Compact-Flash(CF) card is a moveable electronic solid-state-disk(SSD) with IDE interface. It's a small card with mass space. With CF to IDE converter, it can be mount on IDE port and act as a SSD hard-disk. (Not apply to all machine, may be depends on BIOS support)
Un-mount the harddisk and replace it by the CF to IDE adapter with CF.
Please take a caution here: you have to place something under the card & the CF to IDE adapter, to prevent from short circuit by the metal case.
Resume all other parts and start to install Ubuntu as normal.
After install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, a complete is Linux is run-up on a 8G CF.

