Not all older machines will boot from<br>a USB device AFAIK. i.e., The BIOS <br>might not support it. Maybe just something<br>to keep in mind for older hardware.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 23:07 -0500, Jason Kisner wrote:<br>
> I need help doing this. I just recently got an ACER AspireOne with<br>
> Linpus Linux Lite... Needless to say I'm less than satisfied with the<br>
> system, and I want to put Ubuntu on it. (I'd like to get to the newest<br>
> version, eventually) The thing is... it doesn't have a CD Drive (only<br>
> a little over 8 inches wide. and no room for one.) How do I do this?<br>
<br>
Use a USB CD drive, they work very well and every modern BIOS can boot<br>
from USB. The CD/DVD drive in my laptop has been physically broken for<br>
some time and I've done all my installs/upgrades (openSUSE) from a USB<br>
DVD drive. Specifically an LG "External Super Multi DVD Rewriter"<br>
Model: GSA-E60L, firmware version 1.00. It also works great for<br>
burning single and dual layer disks.<br>
<br>
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