Harry Rickards wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> I'd love to install the Jaunty Netbook Remix on my old Dell C610, but it >>> doesn't boot off of a USB drive. Has anyone found a way to either remove >>> un-needed stuff from the .img file and convert it into a bootable CD >>> .iso (the C610 doesn't have a DVD drive), or convert it into an image >>> that's bootable from a PXE Server (like the one installed in a Ubuntu >>> LTSP Install by default)? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> If I'm right you should be able to install the standard Ubuntu Desktop >> image and then install the ubuntu-netbook-remix on top of it with >> Synaptic or apt-get. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Rob >> >> > Ok, thanks. I'll try that now. After I install the ubuntu-netbook-remix > package, would it be safe to remove the ubuntu-desktop package? > > Not sure about that as I haven't actually done any testing yet. From what I understand normally things like the Gnome Desktop etc are linked into the Ubuntu-desktop package so it might be a good idea to keep them. If you try and remove ubuntu-desktop it should tell you what packages will be removed along with it.
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