Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:15:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: That's because most distros, and all top quality cover discs, use hybrid ISO images that avoid the pain associated with the likes of Unetbootin. If you run across one that doesn't work, you do ***NOT*** need to screw around with

[gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-26, gottl...@nyu.edu gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first thought was to get a drive that is both a blue ray READER and a dvd writer AFAIK, none of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 29 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2015-06-26, gottl...@nyu.edu gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first thought was to get a drive that is both a blue ray

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:37:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: [1] Despite all steps explained in the blog posts on how to build a bootable flash drive based on an ISO image, I've found that for everything except systemrescuecd, all I have ever had do is: dd if=whatever.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 01:07:48AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:37:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: [1] Despite all steps explained in the blog posts on how to build a bootable flash drive based on an ISO image, I've found that for everything except

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/06/2015 23:34, walt wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:18:45 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first thought was to get a drive that is both a blue ray READER

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 28 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:10:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a blu-ray reader, plugged into my Kodi machine. It's never had a BR disk in it, instead, it plays CDs! I have a Blu-Ray reader in my desktop, it's a nice fast DVD-RW drive :) Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread gottlieb
thank you alan and walt. allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:10:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a blu-ray reader, plugged into my Kodi machine. It's never had a BR disk in it, instead, it plays CDs! I have a Blu-Ray reader in my desktop, it's a nice fast DVD-RW drive :) On the very few times I've needed to do something

[gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-27 Thread walt
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:18:45 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first thought was to get a drive that is both a blue ray READER and a dvd writer I naively