[xubuntu-users] Installing Xubuntu on an old XP machine.

[Gerard Bekhuis]

Hello.
When you boot your notebook you must hold F12 and then you can boot from
the usb-stick.
Perhaps your notebook is too old.
Good luck.
Merry christmas and a happy new year 2015.
Gérard.

Am 22.12.2014 um 17:57 schrieb Gérald Jean:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Xubuntu 14.10 on an old Pentium 4 machine
> running Windows XP.
>
> From my Notebook running Xubuntu 12.10 I used UNetbootin to download a
> bootable Xubuntu 14.10 image on a USB stick.  Downloaded and installed
> on the USB key correctly, at least this is what UNetbootin says.
>
> Then on the XP machine I went in the BIOS to change the boot order,
> setting the USB flash drive first in that boot order.  But no matter
> what, the machine boots on the hard drive, hence XP and not on the USB
> stick although I see the little blue light of the USB stick clicking a
> few times at start up.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gérald
>
>