Acer Aspire One

-TangleFoot-

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

I said I had a 10-y-o version

I can't find any mention of USB on it.

It doesn't do USB. Does this help?

Turns out Nero does allow image burning without finalizing. It's been so long since I used it I'd forgotten all about it.

Jakeandme

Running Zorin on an old Dell Latitude business laptop, looks a lot like windows and has cool dissolving screens (i know i should know better at my age).

Kernel_Sanders

TakeThis wrote: »

If you want newer software with the ability to burn MultiSession(it is what you want to do) discs, use CDBurnerXP

I installed that and I've managed to burn the image, but saw no option for multisession, meaning the 104MB file now consumes the whole disc.
Sadly, the distro can't seem to detect my 3 Broadband HSPA dongle. I took a screenshot grab of all the connection windows but was unable to save the file onto the USB stick, so can't reproduce it here.

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

It doesn't do USB. Does this help?
Turns out Nero does allow image burning without finalizing. It's been so long since I used it I'd forgotten all about it.

Apologies, you were indeed referring to CDs.
I didn't realize at the time that multisession meant 'not final', so I'll remove Puppy and try again. Hopefully a more recent version will recognize an HSPA+ dongle, my most modern piece of hardware

TakeThis

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Had you read the thread properly, you would see that I have that already installed, see #20 (I now know how to access it).

Yes we have, haven't we

Read the thread?? I'm trying to avoid doing that.

Ubuntu will recognise your Dongle. Just use the Try Ubuntu option.:)

Kernel_Sanders

That dialogue box certainly didn't appear for me, but I concede I should have unchecked the 'finalize' option.

TakeThis wrote: »

Ubuntu will recognise your Dongle. Just use the Try Ubuntu option.:)

Jakeandme's Zorin actually looks highly suitable for Linux newbies, so if I'm going to try a big distro I think I'll go for that. It looks a bit bloated with extra programs (1.1GB download), but at least that would save me time installing them.

spud17

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Jakeandme's Zorin actually looks highly suitable for Linux newbies, so if I'm going to try a big distro I think I'll go for that. I think it's a bit bloated with extra programs (1.1GB download), but that would save me time installing them.

Zorin is quite similar to Lubuntu 'under the bonnet', and not too dissimilar to Xubuntu etc.

Don't know where you get 1.1GB from? You should be looking at Zorin Lite 6.0 (695MB) for older machines.

Just to muddy the waters, it is/was my thread after all , try SliTaz, you can install it to usb from within Windows using it's own .exe installer. Takes 5mins at most, 2 of those looking for a spare flash drive.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-slitaz-to-usb-from-windows/

Edit: forgot you probably can't boot from usb, but others wanting to try a Linux distro can have a bash.

-TangleFoot-

spud17 wrote: »

it is/was my thread after all

Taken a look at Bodhi yet?

Mr_Toad

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Taken a look at Bodhi yet?

Looks good, another distro I'd never heard of, I wonder just how many the world can take.

-TangleFoot-

This site seems to list most of them.

Kernel_Sanders

spud17 wrote: »

it is/was my thread after all

Was it really? I'd quite forgotten

spud17 wrote: »

Don't know where you get 1.1GB from?

From here http://zorin-os.com/free.html (32 bit)

BTW, how do you convert a URL link into a word?