[clug] Eee PC madness

[Neill Cox]

I can lend you a USB cd drive if that would help.

Regards,
Neill Cox

Sent from a phone.  Please forgive brevity and "interesting" auto
correction.
On 25/05/2014 1:53 PM, "Peter VK1PE" <vk1pe.peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I have a hand-me-up* Asus Eee PC 900HA that has Windoze XP on it, 3 x USB
> ports, Ethernet.
>
> [* The hand-me-up principle is where a child hands over something to a
> parent.]
>
> Once I have Ubuntu on it, I figure that I have an upgrade path for ever
> until it dies.
>
> Now that I want to put my USB stick in and install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I
> find that it seemingly has no option available for booting from USB sticks.
> The ROM's boot options are:
>
> Removable Dev.
> HDD:<details>
> ATAPI CD-ROM
> Network:Atheros Boot Agent
> Disabled
>
> Currently, I have set four options:
> Removable Dev.
> Network:Atheros Boot Agent
> ATAPI CD-ROM
> HDD <<M$ XP>
>
> THE PROBLEM
> - I think that this ought to be allowing me to use the USB stick to boot
> Ubuntu, but it does not happen.
> - I think that I have set up Atheros options to look for the network,
> including the other Ubuntu 14.04 device on it, but nothing appears to
> happen. I know little about Atheros and the various Help pages seem to
> exclude my situation.
> - My son seems to have lost the USB CD-ROM drive he formerly used with it.
> - XP is toast, thanks to M$.
>
> I'd appreciate ideas, please.
>
> With thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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