Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 02:12 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday 28 February 2013 18:12:14 Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread.
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu points users to this page to create a flash installer:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
>>>>
>>>> And Fedora points users to a Windows version of liveusb-creator here:
>>>>
>>>> http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
>>>>
>>>> Debian, unfortunately, only gives instructions to burn to a CD/DVD via
>>>> Windows on:
>>>> http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows
>>>
>>> And there is always PCLinuxOS, which was originally designed expressly to
>>> make
>>> the transition to Linux easy for Windows users.
>>
>> I wasn't making an exhaustive list of distributions. I just check
>> three and found their instructions.
>>
>> I've just checked PCLinuxOS and there aren't any CD/DVD/Stick-creation
>> instructions:
>>
>> http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=10
>>
>> I can only access a cached wiki page at the moment and it only has CD
>> burning instructions.
>
> There are instructions for making a boot flash-drive here:
>
> http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,80917.0.html

Thanks but these instructions are for creating an installation flash
drive on Linux - and they're well hidden. So it's a fail from the
perspective of the person criticizing distributions for not providing
readily-available Windows instructions for creating one.