On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:49:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:51:48AM -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: > > As someone who deals with a lot of random donated hardware, I can > > attest that we run into these cases frequently. It may be rare that > > new systems lack these capabilities, > > Donated x86 hardware that lacks an USB port? I kind of believe that not.
I used to have an x86-64 box that claimed to support booting from a USB stick but steadfastly refused to do so. As someone who until recently did desktop support for years, I can tell you that there are a lot of machines I've encountered that can't boot off a USB stick, and maybe about a third of those don't do DVD. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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