Some machines don't have a boot from USB option. Mostly older machines, 
and VMware.

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Venkat Chandra wrote:

> One would still have to make the USB bootable (using UNetBootin or some
> such), correct?  
> Thanks,
> Vee.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Michael Berkowski <mjb at umn.edu> wrote:
>       On 3/1/2011 12:06 PM, Yaron wrote:
>       > Plop Boot Manager (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html)
>       is a boot
>       > CD image that'll just pop up a menu and let you choose where
>       to boot
>       > from. I've used it to boot of USB drives on machines that
>       don't have
>       > that capability. Download the ZIP and burn the plpbt.iso to a
>       CD.
> 
> This is fantastic - I lost track of the number of times I could have
> used this and instead had to go and burn a full installer iso or  much
> worse, a stack of CD iso images on a machine w/o DVD or USB booting.
> Thanks!
> 
> +++++++++++++++++
> Michael Berkowski
> Minitex  / MnLINK Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer
> University of Minnesota
> mjb at umn.edu
> PGP Public key:
> http://www.tc.umn.edu/~berk0081/pgp/pubkey.asc
> +++++++++++++++++
> 
> 
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>


-Yaron

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