A few Lubuntu Menu things...

2014-01-01 Thread Eric Bradshaw
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The icon problem, and the bug I filed. Please mark it affecting you

2014-01-01 Thread Israel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-themes/+bug/1265392 I decided to file a bug and link to the wiki page. If everyone who is listening to this thread could please mark it as affecting them. I added it against the ubuntu-themes package as I thought it would get seen there. Tell

Re: Happy new year

2014-01-01 Thread Aere Greenway
On 01/01/2014 12:34 PM, Israel wrote: I know this is rather nerdy, but Israel: Thank you for the clever graphic, done in characters. It's a "blast from the past" like the graphics available to us when I originally started programming (in the late 60's). Since one good turn deserves

Happy new year

2014-01-01 Thread Israel
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Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Brendan, I guess it depends on the how bios wouldn't allow it, or if it 'is allowed' but does not work for some reason. It is easy to try, so do it and let us know the result :-) Best regards/Nio 2014-01-01 19:57, brendanperr...@gmail.com skrev: > I wonder if this would work to boot from an

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread brendanperr...@gmail.com
I wonder if this would work to boot from an sd card chainloading if bios doesn't allow it. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Iberê Fernandes wrote: > 2014/1/1 Nio Wiklund : > > Hi, > > > > I just finished a little tool that helps boot some computers from > > [other] USB boot drives - the Chainload

Re: A few Lubuntu Menu things...

2014-01-01 Thread Israel
Make sure I got this right please: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Missing%20Menu%20Icons#F I'll try to add an Index up top soon, too so one can go quickly to a Letter to see if an app they have trouble with is listed. I will try to find out where I can submit this info to when we get closer to being

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot NEW: Changing default partition

2014-01-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Aere, I glad that I could help you in this unexpected way :-) Best regards Nio 2014-01-01 18:45, Aere Greenway skrev: > Nio: > > Thank you very much for the information. I have encountered situations > where some USB drives boot on some machines, but not on others. > > Also, as a side-note

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot NEW: Changing default partition

2014-01-01 Thread Aere Greenway
Nio: Thank you very much for the information. I have encountered situations where some USB drives boot on some machines, but not on others. Also, as a side-note, thank you for the information, because on reading one of the links you provided (or was available from one of those links), I fin

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Iberê Fernandes
2014/1/1 Nio Wiklund : > Hi, > > I just finished a little tool that helps boot some computers from > [other] USB boot drives - the Chainloader > > The chainloader is useful for middle-aged computers, for example > computers without a CD/DVD drive, where it can be hard to boot from a > USB drive, or

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
[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

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Israel
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 l

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi again, Or do you mean the general question, how to install without CD/DVD/USB? Yes I can. I would take advantage of the portability of the Ubuntu family systems, connect the internal drive to another computer and install the operating system. It will work after you reconnect the internal drive

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Israel, The USB bootloader is meant to work like your second alternative, to help booting from a USB device, that will not boot from the computer's own boot menu. But of course, if it is installed into an internal or eSATA drive, it will help booting, but that is better catered for with the '4

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Israel
Can you boot computers that have no capability to boot from usb, and have a broken optical drive? Or is this mainly just to boot a USB stick that is not supported by the computer to boot from? On 01/01/2014 05:41 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Good question Jörn, The USB chainloader works from USB.

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

2014-01-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
Good question Jörn, The USB chainloader works from USB. I know Plop and have used it to boot USB via CD in old computers. I tried to use Plop from USB. I could make it boot and run its menu, but I was not able to boot another USB device from it, at least not with the fairly modern hardware that I