Chosing cheap desktop: recommendation?

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:57:07AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>| From: S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
>|  Plus those laptop has no CD drive, while I am yet to master creating
>| bootable memory key (I don't even have any USB key! Although I do have some SD
>| card and USD SD card readed, which can function as USB key).
>
>The latest Ubuntu (8.10) includes a tool for making a bootable USB flash
>memory from any bootable CD or DVD.
- snip -
>Since you don't seem to have a running Linux machine, this probably
>doesn't really address your problem.  Perhaps this tool can work from
>the live Ubuntu CD, if only for making a bootable USB version of
>itself.  Tricky:  the CD would have to be in the optical drive to
>serve two purposes at the same time: home of the currently running
>system and master for copying to the USB memory.

This tools is also available on Windows - you can use it to put ISO
files for discs onto USB media, cards or sticks.
-- 

yours,

William

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