7 Jul
2013
7 Jul
'13
4:27 p.m.
On 7 Jul 2013 21:36, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
Cindy, if you make a bootable Linux USB stick, then you can use a freeware
tool called the PLOP Boot Manager to start it even on computers that don't
have the ability to boot from USB. Plop can boot from CD ROM or from floppy
diskette. It's tiny - I think it even fits on a 720KB disk.
Would there be any advantage to making bootable
USB sticks for the laptops, so there is some sort of OS? Not all of the
units will have optical drives, and most won't have a floppy, but they
should all have a USB port of some sort.
absolutely.
BUT!
Can they boot from USB? NO, NOT ALL MACHINES CAN. From memory, www.Plop.at
As for making a USB bootable thumb key, there's a Free program called
Unetbootin that will do this from any Linux ISO that you download.
Drop me a mail or chat if I can help in any way.
- LP