Aere:
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On 06/01/2016 09:13 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
On 06/01/2016 05:57 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
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Nio:
Though I wish there were a Lubuntu version that would boot from CD,
from what I have seen over the years, if a big effort were made to
make this possible, it would most likely be only a temporary victory.
As time goes on, new functionality goes into the kernel, and support
for older machines is kept (again, we don't want to abandon those
machines), so the kernel keeps getting bigger. I would not want the
kernel developers to remove support for older hardware, so removing
older stuff to make room for the new is not (to me) a good idea.
They already have removed support for older computers, for example
computers requiring cmov support in the kernel and also the entire issue
of pae/non pae.
That is
Also, in the repository, as more useful things become available, those
new things become used, and eventually become essential. So again,
the essential repository components' space on the install CD gradually
grows.
So far, even my oldest machines have been able to boot from USB (using
Plop), including using the older USB 1.0 ports, which are slow, but
not impossibly slow). My problems with booting from USB have been
problems with the USB Creator software.
By the way, you can get USB 2.0 PCI cards (for a desktop), providing
faster USB, and they are (were?) inexpensive. Of course, that doesn't
help for a laptop.
Since I need to get the wireless working first on my machines before
installing, I prefer to use the live desktop version (rather than the
alternate install), so I would probably not use a CD-size alternate
install version anyway.
This is, of course, my opinion on the subject.
It is possible to boot a USB from some computers via GRUB.
Some older computers do not even initialize the USB ports until much
later (after the initial BIOS)
So the only option is a CD image.
In those situations users will be require to use the mini iso.
This is problematic, as a Live ISO is a good way to test hardware....
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