[replies inline] 2014-01-01 17:19, Israel skrev: > > I was asking because I had received a laptop a while back where I had > the problem of a broken Optical drive. I couldn't install a fresh > operating system without first using an optical drive, as the BIOS > didn't support USB booting. I did end up taking apart the laptop and > using a different laptop's optical drive to boot and install Lubuntu.
That's a good way too :-) > I > was wondering if this provided some awesome (and seemingly impossible) > solution to something I had encountered that I couldn't find a > workaround for. I suppose this is something that would be hard to do, > unless you had 1 specific BIOS you were targeting and knew the internals > well enough to hack around and get a hack to boot from a USB.... :( That seems impossible to me > Though I am sure this will be a handy tool to have. It seems like there > are quite a number of us here that get old 'broken' WinXP computers and > have to do some clever things to get them to boot, and function (reminds > me of Ali's current battle with his Laptop). Yes, there are quite a number of us here that get old WinXP computers to work with Lubuntu and similar distros :-P > Fortunately hardware vendors are beginning to work to make things easier > for us now, rather than difficult (except the silly M$ UEFI debacle... > though EFI to boot straight into Lubuntu would make boot times > phenomenal rather than using GRUB... like a Mac does with its EFI) -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
