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| ====== About ====== | ====== About ====== |
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| Due to the size of the Xubuntu ISOs, they no longer fit on a standard CD, this guide will help you if your BIOS doesn't support booting off of USB drives by showing you how to use Plop bootmanager. | This guide will help you if your BIOS doesn't support booting off of USB drives by showing you how to use Plop boot manager. |
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| ====== Getting Plop ====== | ====== Getting Plop ====== |
| The Plop bootmanager homepage is at http://plop.at and you can download the most recent version at http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html and you shouldn't need a special edition. (plpbt-5.0.14.zip 2012-02-11 Plop Boot Manager 5.0.14 at the time of this writing.) | The Plop boot manager homepage is at http://www.plop.at and you can download the most recent version at http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html and you shouldn't need a special edition. |
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| ====== Burning Plop bootmanager ====== | ====== Executing Plop ====== |
| It's generally the same process as documented at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto Main contents of the downloaded archive should be: | The burning process is similar as documented on the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto|Ubuntu wiki]]. |
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| | Main contents of the downloaded archive should be: |
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| <file> | <file> |
| plpbt.bin Boot manager binary | plpbt.bin Boot manager binary |
| plpbt.img Boot manager floppy disk image | plpbt.img Boot manager floppy disk image |
| plpbt.iso Boot manager cd iso | plpbt.iso Boot manager CD ISO |
| plpbtrom.bin Boot manager rom file for the bios | plpbtrom.bin Boot manager ROM file for the BIOS |
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| doc/ Documentation | doc/ Documentation |
| Windows/ Windows related programs | Windows/ Windows related programs |
| </file> | </file> |
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| | You will then have to create your bootable USB device (flash drive) as documented in the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick|installation section]] of the Ubuntu wiki. |
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| | After you create both the bootable USB device and Plop CD, place the CD in the CD drive, and power off the computer. After you power off, place the USB device in the computer and turn the computer on, you may need to go into the BIOS settings and configure it to boot from CD first. |
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| | {{ :wiki:plop-menu.png?200|}} |
| | After you boot into Plop from the CD, you should see a "USB" item on the menu that will appear (as pictured to the right), select it with the Down arrow key, then hit Enter to boot. |
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