Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
[You've snipped the history of the posters...]
>> 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.
>>
> Just a minute or two with Google found this:
>
> http://voices.yahoo.com/how-bootable-iso-flash-drive-7334710.html
>
> UltraISO is a Windows program to work with iso files.
> The program is free for enough of it to make bootable flash drives,
> according to the description. I haven't tried it, but you can get the
> UltraISO from CNet, so it should be OK.
>
> It sould appear that you could get the program, then get the iso
> for PCLOS, and burn the flash drive all from a laptop or notebook
> that has no optical drive, and then install pclos from the flash.
> I can't think of anything much simpler than that.
The point isn't that you can find instructions via Google. (You could
also install Cygwin and use its "dd" or compile "dd" on Windows or
...).
The point is that distributions should have easily accessible
instructions (like Fedora and Ubuntu) to create a flash installer as
well as a CD installer.
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