[aklug] Re: Xubuntu bloat 14.04

From: Josh Reynolds <josh@spitwspots.com>
Date: Fri Nov 21 2014 - 03:47:33 AKST

Not that I have ever done that to a production vm host or anything
...

:)

On 11/20/2014 03:43 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Josh Reynolds <josh@spitwspots.com> [141120 15:32]:
>> http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
>>
>> or in linux is just use "dd"
> Be very, very careful using dd - if you specify the wrong device
> node, you can seriously clobber your OS.
>
> Not that I have every done anything like that ...
>
>> On 11/20/2014 02:57 PM, Mike wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com>:
>>>
>>>> People burn CD images still?
>>>>
>>>> Ubiquitous USB boot support is pretty much killing CDs for restoral.
>>>>
>>>> And the very few systems that don't support booting from USB will
>>>> boot from CD and then transfer off to USB quite easily.
>>>>
>>>> so... why constrain yourself to "floppies" when a "hard disk" will do?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is a thought.
>>>
>>> didn't seem as "easy" to accomplish....I have limited experience with
>>> bootable USB.
>>>
>>> Mike B.
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