04-05-2017, 12:06 AM
THanks, I did all that stuff. I think the problem is that the new laptop ( I took it back) had too many arcane routines needed to alter the BIOS to boot from a USB. There were quite a few forums with people tearing their hair out. That said, I still really don't know if I made a proper USB boot disk or not from the instructions given. I have two, though, one using the instructions in this Help Menu, and one using another program that came up in a search and seems to have worked okay. I now have a second laptop. This one has a built-in DVD drive. But I still can't get it to boot from it, even though I reset the BIOS to do so! So still unable to install Linux Lite on a new computer. And HP says 'it doesn't support Linux' so doesn't help people with BIOS-jiggering issues. I'll get there now I have a dvd drive. It's jsut much, much harder than it used to be.....