On 31/05/16 13:30, Liam Proven wrote: > On 31 May 2016 at 14:29, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 31 May 2016 at 10:32, E James <e_ja...@moladn.net> wrote: >>> I recently tried to install 16.04 using a USB stick but I couldn't get it >>> to boot up; probably because it's a 2003 PC. However, as I recall, there's >>> a point in the installation setup where you say yes or no to configuring >>> the network adaptor. If you said no and it still wants network details, >>> then I would say there's a bug in the installer. >> >> The PLOP Boot Manager will get around that. You can run it from CD or >> floppy disk, and it will boot a USB device. >> >> However, be warned, booting off USB *1* is *very* slow. USB 2 works fine. > > > Forgot the link! > > https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html >
The longer story.... I have a Shuttle with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu and 512MB ram. It is configured for dual boot - Windows (XP Pro) / Linux (now Lubuntu 14.04). It was running Lubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to use ffmpeg but I got an error messsage - "illegal operation" so I thought to upgrade it to 16.04. I have a 32GB usb stick which currently has 21 different boot/install options using YUMI multiboot. I wasn't sure if the PC would boot from it but it did, up to the point of the YUMI menu. Every option I tried from the menu would start to boot and then hang at apparently the same point in the boot process. The PC has a DVD drive but won't boot from DVD, only CD. The 16.04 Alternate iso won't fit on a CD. So I did a distribution upgrade to 14.04 and still ffmpeg wouldn't run. Then I caught on that the version of ffmpeg I was using was too modern for the cpu so I compiled one which worked. I can presumably do another upgrade to 16.04 if I still want it, but not until the option is available from the update manager. Currently the PC is doing what I want it to do ... slowly. I am in no hurry to make further changes. Thunderbird puts mailing list messages in a hierarchy according to rules which I don't quite understand. Some of the incoming messages have a "Reply List" button and some don't. I think gmail may be a factor. Without the "Reply List" option it is a bit more difficult to make sure my reply goes to the appropriate part of the list. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
