On 23 February 2015 at 20:19, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/23/2015 07:13 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
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>> On 02/23/2015 07:32 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
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>>> On 02/21/2015 08:15 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:54:34 -0800
>>>> ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On 02/18/2015 06:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> LibreOffice::
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> needed to recover M$ Office documents from
>>>>>>>> corrupted Windows disks.  And to demonstrate that
>>>>>>>> if they upgrade to Linux, they don't need M$ Office.
>>>>>>>> And they can play with it to see if they like it
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>  Way too large I think personally.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> You have 4.7 GB on the disk.  And showing customers
>>>>> they don;'t need M$ Office is a big deal, plus they
>>>>> love to see their documents recovered.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, we are currently targeting a 1gb usb, not a full sized dvd. :)
>>>>
>>>> We could of course change that...
>>>>
>>>> kevin
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> I can not even find a 1 GB USB at my suppliers, except for
>>> the terrible/cheap ones that are so very, very SLOW and
>>> fall apart.
>>>
>>
>> I doubt it's so much the storage on the user end as storage and
>> bandwidth on the mirrors.
>>
>>
>>
> I have gotten around that by formatting with ext4 and
> setting up for persistence.
>
> Problem is, I am finding it rather difficult to get most
> PC's to actually boot off a USB stick.  Some do, most don't.
>

Eh? I have dealt with a ton of Supermicro, Asus, and other motherboard
computers and they have all worked with USB. Of course this is all hardware
post 2010 so I am guessing the age might be an issue?



> Supermicro's BIOS'es are an especially big pain in the neck
> (not my exact word).  Most PC's will boot off a DVD though.
> And NO MAC (OSx) will boot off a Live USB without jumping
> though some crazy hoops.
>

No recent Mac comes with a DVD either.


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