To create the bootable install on USB stick doesn't take much time at
all, especially when compared to burning a CD. So, to create it and find
out if it will work or not is that much of a time investment. On older
machines the BIOS won't list usb as a boot option, but many work IF the
flash drive is plugged in when the machine is turned on (and might
require Plug and Play OS enabled in some older BIOSes).
It's an option well worth exploring... I've wasted time on older
machines trying to burn install CDs, only to have them fail to work as
boot disks... and then lo and behold, the flash drive solution worked in
less time than it takes to burn 1 CD.
Down the page, that article offers a solution for older machines that
won't boot off USB (USB 1.0 instead of 2.0 I believe is the real issue
here). It claims to have a loader that works. Check it out!
John
[email protected] wrote:
But then, computers that old may not (and probably won't) be able to
boot from USB.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Cavan D. Mejias wrote:
*Hey,
*Some distros come in a format that can be dd'ed to a usb flash drive. And
installed from there.
** Good luck, hope the kids prefer *nix from now on.
* * * * Cheers.
2010/1/16 Kari Matthews <[1][email protected]>
Yeah, I thought about that. *I don't have one lying around in the
immediate vicinity, but maybe this is the trick anyway.
I'm downloading Qimo right now. *Just for the h of it. *We'll see ...
*wink*
I have no idea how much RAM are in these machines. *I assume 256, but I
was too lazy to check. *Could lack of memory cause the puking?
On both machines, it fails at the "installing software" stage. *Then,
one machine won't allow either grub or lilo to load. *
Thanks,
Kari
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jeremiah Bess
<[2][email protected]> wrote:
Any chance you can put a DVD drive in from another computer to load
what you want? I had to do that with my home server, which is fine,
cause I never use the drive after I install.
Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:55, Kari Matthews <[3][email protected]>
wrote:
Ugh.
My kids were "gifted" two older Dells. *They both had XP on them --
I would imagine they are maybe 7-8 years old. *Both have CD-ROMs in
them.
I downloaded edubuntu -- not realizing that the computers didn't
have DVD drives. *Oops. *So then I thought, well, how about Xubuntu?
*This fails on the install -- albeit in different places -- on both
machines.
These kids are 6 & 8. *I'd really like to put some kind of something
on these machines w/ a graphical interface. *What would you suggest
I do? *
Thanks,
Kari
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