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    From wexfordpress@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 10 13:01:26 2019
    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro that can be downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze OS? The current win 10 is not useable
    in my opinion.

    John Culleton

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  • From root@21:1/5 to wexfordpress on Sun Feb 10 21:13:50 2019
    wexfordpress <culletonpl@gmail.com> wrote:
    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro that can be downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze OS? The current win 10 is not useable
    in my opinion.

    John Culleton

    Can any other laptop boot from the USB stick?

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  • From Henrik Carlqvist@21:1/5 to wexfordpress on Mon Feb 11 07:02:25 2019
    On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:01:26 -0800, wexfordpress wrote:

    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware
    won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives.

    What boot options do you have in the CMOS setup? If you lack a cdrom and
    really are unable to boot from USB the only option left (assuming that
    the laptop also lacks a floppy) is PXE boot from the network interface.

    There are also exteranal USB CD/DVD-drives, but then again they require
    that your laptop support booting by USB.

    If all boot options fails on the laptop you will have to take the HD out
    and connect it to some IDE/SATA-USB converter. With such a thing you will
    be able to connect the HD to some other PC and you can use something like
    qemu to install Slackware on the HD.

    regards Henrik

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  • From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to wexfordpress on Mon Feb 11 19:45:33 2019
    wexfordpress <culletonpl@gmail.com> wrote:
    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro that can be downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze OS? The current win 10 is not useable
    in my opinion.


    Not giving any information about the hardware bought other than the
    vendor. Trying to use Slackware in 2019. Not having tried any other distribution. Windows 10 rant.

    Well trolled, citizen.

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  • From Jerry Peters@21:1/5 to Marc Haber on Mon Feb 11 21:18:02 2019
    Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:
    wexfordpress <culletonpl@gmail.com> wrote:
    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro that can be downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze OS? The current win 10 is not useable
    in my opinion.


    Not giving any information about the hardware bought other than the
    vendor. Trying to use Slackware in 2019. Not having tried any other distribution. Windows 10 rant.

    Well trolled, citizen.

    He's not a troll -- he's been posting on the slackare newsgroup for at
    least several years.

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to wexfordpress on Thu Feb 14 13:54:48 2019
    On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:01:26 -0800 (PST)
    wexfordpress <culletonpl@gmail.com> wrote:

    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive.
    Slackware won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro
    that can be downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze
    OS? The current win 10 is not useable in my opinion.

    John Culleton

    I have a refurbished HP Desktop. To get to the boot menu hold down the
    F9 key or Esc for Setup.

    Download Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1 from here:

    https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3669

    Put it on a USB stick. Use the boot menu to find it, it will install.

    You will have the choice of erasing the drive, or installing alongside
    Windows.

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  • From Michael Black@21:1/5 to wexfordpress on Thu Feb 14 14:27:50 2019
    On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, wexfordpress wrote:

    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware
    won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. Is there a distro that can be downloaded and then installed from the existing Windoze OS? The current
    win 10 is not useable in my opinion.

    I suspect you're missing some detail.

    The USB flash drive has to be set to be bootable, I forget how, but it's outlined somewhere in the Slackware literature. And the laptop needs to
    be set to boot from the USB flash drive. I remember playing with a
    netbook and findig that unless I had the USB drive attached, the option
    from booting from USB didn't appear on the BIOS menu. I don't know if
    that's the case for every computer, or not.

    If SLackware doesn't boot, I'm not sure why a different distribution will
    boot.

    Michael

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to wexfordpress on Fri Feb 15 10:40:40 2019
    On 10/02/2019 21:01, wexfordpress wrote:
    Just bought a refurbished HP laptop.

    A model number would help. I don't know if this is business series, or a consumer supermarket locked down thing that won't do anything else but
    windows.

    It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware won't boot from any of the 4 usb
    drives. Is there a distro that can be downloaded and then installed from
    the existing Windoze OS? The current win 10 is not useable
    in my opinion.

    UEFI / secure boot?

    If you can't disable it in BIOS by selecting "legacy boot", then you
    will be launching down another rabbit hole doing the install the UEFI
    way. There is help on google, including for slackware.

    https://www.linux.com/learn/how-install-linux-windows-machine-uefi-secure-boot

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    Adrian C

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