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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:51:51 +0200
Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Am 15.10.2010 19:40, schrieb Yorvyk:
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:51:42 +0200
> > Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Am 15.10.2010 06:20, schrieb Ben Coleman:
> >>     
> >>> On 10/14/2010 07:24 PM, Benny Hult wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> But it lacks with packages if you compare to Lubuntu.
> >>>> Hope we can see you using Lubuntu still in the future, becouse the grass
> >>>> ain't greener on the other side of the fence ;)
> >>>>         
> >>> Well, turns out that my other Lubuntu candidate (A Compaq Armada 7800
> >>> running a PII/266) is i686-class despite being slower than the AMD, so
> >>> Lubuntu 10.10 should run OK on it, if I can manage to burn a Lubuntu
> >>> CD-R that it will read (the CDROM reader on this machine tends to be a
> >>> bit finicky, and it's old enough that I don't think that it will boot
> >>> from USB Flash).
> >>>       
> >> There is a trick to it. You must create a Live-CD and a Live USB Stick.
> >> Pop in the CD and try booting from the cd until you see the bootmenu.
> >> Stick in the USB Live Stick.
> >> Now you need to act fast. Press Enter to boot. Wait until the message
> >> Loading xyz ... displays on your screen. Now pop out the cd-rom and it
> >> will then boot from usb key.
> >> It's a nice trick to get any computer with cdrom drive boot from usb.
> >>
> >>     
> > Try as I might I cannot get that to work
> >   
> Doesn't it detect the usb stick or does it fail even to go into init ?
> 
> 
Doesn’t see detect the USB stick.

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