Back in 2009, I bought an Asus EEE netbook, which I called Horace, & installed Gentoo alongside Windows, which I've never used. Gentoo was last updated in 2015 ; the device is in good repair.
Recently, I checked Horace & he still does 1 of his intended jobs, ie reading & editing texts of novels etc downloaded from the I/net (the other 2 jobs are no longer required). I wanted to replace Windows with Linux Mint or another binary distro -- avoiding the need to update Gentoo -- , but ran into a problem : Horace no longer boots from USB. I can transfer files via USB stick, but can't get a live USB version of Mint etc to start. Also, I now use Wifi exclusively -- I no longer have a landline -- , but while Horace can access Wifi, his Gentoo doesn't have Wifi installed, so there's a Catch-22 : w/o a landline, I can't install WPA etc. One solution mb simply to copy an upto-date Mint ISO into the partition now occupied by Windows -- which I don't need -- & set up Lilo -- which is my prefered boot manager -- to boot from it ; Lilo currently allows a choice of Gentoo/Windows. Does anyone know if that would work or how to trouble-shoot it ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet
