More live linux distributions available

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 1 13:40:55 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 17:13 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:30:08 -0500 Aaron Konstam
> <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 13:51 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:59 -0500 Aaron Konstam
> > > <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I don't know  when this happened  but unetbootin-linux-555 is now
> > > > available. This allows dozens of live Linux distributions to be
> > > > downloaded onto a USB stick. The new version includes Fedora 15. The yum
> > > > available unetbootin does not allow this.
> > > > 
> > > > You can download it from: 
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.unetbootin.sourceforge.net
> > > 
> > > It does not? Mine does. However, what it does not (and from the
> > > screenshots on the referred-to page still may not) provide is
> > > downloading other spins from Fedora such as LXDE, XFCE and the like.
> > > 
> > > Ranjan
> > > 
> > 
> > There seems to be a misunderstanding. I am talking about being able to
> > download distributions. You are interested in DEs. If you want let us
> > say LXDE under F15 you install F15 with its default DE and then install
> > LXDE using yum.
> 
> Actually, there are Fedora LXDE/XFCE/KDE, etc spins and that are not in
> the unetbootin options. But X/K/Ed/ubuntus are. 
> 
> > I am completely confused by your line: It does not? Mine does.
> > What is yours and what does it do,
> 
> I was responding to your statement "The yum available unetbootin does
> not allow this". For me, this statement is not true.
What I am saying the yum installed unetbootin while in F15 does not
allow you to download Live F15. That is true on my machine.


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