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Originally Posted by frabjous
As mentioned, you could have used a USB flash drive, or something else. Check out Unetbootin, for example, which is custom made for this kind of thing.
Anyway, it should be clear this isn't a point against linux in favor of the others; I'd hate to think how hard it would be to try to install Windows without an optical drive or network connection. |
Thanks. Mint 7 RC1 installer under Windows doesn't work, but they promise to have that working for the stable release. Since everybody says that Ubuntu 9.04 is a major jump forward, and the Mint variant sound like what I want, I'll wait for the stable release of Mint 7. Unetbootin doesn't support Mint 7 RC 1 either, so I'll wait. I've got every thing bookmarked. Thanks for the help.
(You think that the Mint people would mention the Unetbootin (or equivalent) in their 77 page support document for those needing to boot off USB. Sigh.)