Posted on 05/28/2009 11:24:21 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Can I install Ubuntu from a flash drive instead of a cd?
If you use Firefox on Mac OS X, be sure to install the Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS, by Sam Gross. It shows the PDF right in the browser, using the same PDF support built into OS X that the Apple-supplied Preview app uses. I use Preview to look at PDFs on disk. There is no need to install Acrobat Reader on the Mac.
On Windows, I use the Foxit Reader. No need for Acrobat on Windows, either. It's a bloated mess. It also contains security holes — open the wrong document and you are owned!
How did you get it to the flash drive?
Seeing as how a driver to read from a CD would different than one to read from a flash drive...something ,...someone is going to have to something special.
Thanks.
Sigh. Need this ... hmmm ...
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