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 > +++++++++++++++++ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -Yaron --