[GRLUG] old laptop utilization

Steve Romanow slestak989 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 09:24:48 EST 2012


I remember seeing this come across my blog reading recently.  PLOP
allegedly helps you use usb boot media for devices that typically have
trouble booting usb.

http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html



On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 12:02 -0500, Edward Crawford wrote:
>
>> I have an old thinkpad with 512 of memory. I'd like to create a
>> bootable Ubuntu thumb drive to run it & to have on hand for other
>> projects. Does anyone have any links to instructions on creating a
>> bootable thumb drive?
>
> dd if=/dev/image.iso of=/dev/your-thumb-drive
>
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