Timothy Murphy: >> Does anybody nowadays actually burn CDs or DVDs? Ed Greshko: > Yes..... The BIOS on many of the machines I encounter don't support > booting from USB. Or the BIOS is none-too-great at booting from USB. Just recently I had to boot from USB to install onto a laptop with no optical drive. I found four different methods of putting a Linux installer onto a USB. One of them involved Windows, so that was out. Two of them were Linux programs for writing installers to the flash drive. One required adding things to a current install that I didn't want to do. The other was less painful, and worked for writing one installer to a USB, but not for another (I tried Fedora and Ubuntu on this laptop). The last was plain dd if=/install.iso of=/def/flashdrive (I'm paraphrasing), and that worked for the one that didn't work the other way. All of which was more hassle than burning a disc, and was actually slower than burning a disc for one of the methods (I don't recall which, but I tend to think it was the dd method). So, while you can install from a USB, it's not always the most convenient. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
