Hi Rich Thanks for the reply. The version of Clear Linux OS that I downloaded is indeed the Live Desktop DVD disc. The BIOS is itself the culprit of this dilemma. And I'm curious about whether or not this is a trend. As Microsoft becomes more and more disliked for their operating systems. And as Microsoft's software development environment becomes less and less useful for creating desktop clients ( I call them fat clients ). This appears to be a desperate move to disable the hardware entirely. By the way I have no negative opinions about Microsoft Azure nor Office 365 (except for one tiny complaint about e-mail aliases).
Sincerely Neil On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 12:54 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2019, OR Linux Jobs wrote: > > > Thanks for the answers > > Neil, > > While you tried to boot a distro from a USB flash drive for installation, > have you tried a live distro, such as Knoppix, on a USB flash drive? I > wonder if that might boot because it bypasses everything on the hard drive. > > Not being familiar with that hardware or anything requiring Microsoft's > approval (since M$ would not alloe me to upgrade from windows 3.1 using IBM > PC-DOS 6 as the underlying OS) I've no idea whether a live OS would work. > > Regards, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
