On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 13:25 -0800, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > I was afraid that there wasn't a built in CD/DVD player. Yes, a USB > attached DVD player will look the same as a USB thumb drive. No relief > there. >
USB DVD drive and USB thumb drive are not quite the same thing when it comes to BIOS/EFI/OS. That being said, I am not 100% sure if the DVD drive was essential to boot on that thing, so I would not advocate getting one if not readily available. I do remember, though, that the ASUS laptop was probably the last time I used the DVD drive to boot anything. Still use it to read music CDs every now and then. > I assume this is a machine that does not have a BIOS upgrade path? > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 1:15 PM OR Linux Jobs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
