[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 14.04 released!

[Steve]

I keep a plop Cd in my toolkit always just for this reason.

On 04/17/2014 10:28 PM, Fred Roller wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 05:59 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> On 04/17/2014 10:13 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>> It appears from the size of thees images that we are now beyond CD 
>>> capability?
>>
>> That would be a great pity. I regularly encounter machines that will 
>> run Xubuntu but which have a BIOS that has no USB-boot option, so a 
>> CD is required.
>>
>> ///Peter
>>
> same here.  I deal with introducing linux to under privileged 
> community , via xubuntu, and the machines they have access to often 
> don't boot usb which at that age means no dvd but cd.  The cure I end 
> up with is burning a Plop cd which will find the usb thumbdrive for 
> installation.  For those interested in this approach:
>
> http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html
>
> Handy tool.  Still wish there was a <700 mb version or will they 
> release a net install iso Xubuntu?
>
> Fred
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