On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:22, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:58:54 +0200, Per Carlson wrote: > >> And what if the system doesn't have an optical drive? Buying an external >> drive shouldn't be the easiest option. > > So this hypothetical system doesn't have Linux, nor does it have an > optical drive
Think about netbooks and ultraportables, which is shipped with Windows and no CD/DVD-drive. Not *that* hypothetical, right? > nor does its owner have any friends with an optical drive > or Linux? That would of course be a solution. But that doesn't mean there shouldn't be suggested other solutions? > Then the hypothetical owner had better do some Googling for unetbootin or > the like. Which leads on to the topic the OP is complaining about: how to find that information. I might be stupid, but that search term didn't strike me as an obvious one. But I do thank you for that term, UNetbootin looks great. -- Pelle RFC1925, truth 11: Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caourynapq0takcjubbznvwt36emt1n2pqkk_3yopctbembx...@mail.gmail.com