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Re: What linux will run on my laptop?

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, wexfordpress wrote:

> Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware 
> won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro that can be 
> downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze OS? The current 
> win 10 is not useable in my opinion.
>
I suspect you're missing some detail.

The USB flash drive has to be set to be bootable, I forget how, but it's 
outlined somewhere in the Slackware literature.  And the laptop needs to 
be set to boot from the USB flash drive.  I remember playing with a 
netbook and findig that unless I had the USB drive attached, the option 
from booting from USB didn't appear on the BIOS menu.  I don't know if 
that's the case for every computer, or not.

If SLackware doesn't boot, I'm not sure why a different distribution will
boot.

   Michael

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What linux will run on my laptop? wexfordpress <culletonpl@gmail.com> - 2019-02-10 13:01 -0800
  Re: What linux will run on my laptop? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2019-02-10 21:13 +0000
  Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2019-02-11 07:02 +0000
  Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2019-02-11 19:45 +0100
    Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-02-11 21:18 +0000
  Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net> - 2019-02-14 14:27 -0500
  Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2019-02-14 13:54 -0600
  Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-02-15 10:40 +0000

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