On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:45:28 +0200, Per Carlson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:22, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> > wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:58:54 +0200, Per Carlson wrote: >> >>> And what if the system doesn't have an optical drive? Buying an >>> external drive shouldn't be the easiest option. >> >> So this hypothetical system doesn't have Linux, nor does it have an >> optical drive > > Think about netbooks and ultraportables, which is shipped with Windows > and no CD/DVD-drive. Not *that* hypothetical, right? > >> nor does its owner have any friends with an optical drive or Linux? > > That would of course be a solution. But that doesn't mean there > shouldn't be suggested other solutions? > >> Then the hypothetical owner had better do some Googling for unetbootin >> or the like. > > Which leads on to the topic the OP is complaining about: how to find > that information. I might be stupid, but that search term didn't strike > me as an obvious one. But I do thank you for that term, UNetbootin looks > great.
Sorry for the prickly tone. I was not getting at you; just irritated by OP's attitude and evident inability to frame a question in a way likely to elicit helpful answers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j11ura$ipn$1...@dough.gmane.org