[GLLUG] GRUB dual boot on removable drive

[michael norman]

On 17/09/2018 14:17, Alistair Mann via GLLUG wrote:
> On 17/09/18 13:48, michael norman via GLLUG wrote:
>> Optical drives are a bit dead maybe.
>
> Very much so. I met one man who's never in his life used a CD so was 
> unable to install software found on one. I bought the most recent 
> "Doom" on DVD only to find it was effectively an installer used to 
> download the 90% of data that didn't fit on it. And of course, I met a 
> wizened but panicked old computer guy who had forgotten a "Disk boot 
> failure" message could mean he had left a resources CD in that server 
> from years ago.

I assume the man you met had never used Windows when WIN 95 came upon us 
ie when I first had a home computer, I remember all the software I 
installed that way so he's a bit young right ?  There are other young 
persons whom I suspect have never played a music cd or watched a movie 
on dvd either.