Hi everyone. I've introduced Devuan to a friend who is not (yet) an accomplished Linux geek, but he's been learning very fast. He's not real well-off financially, so his two computers are old i386 laptops donated by friends. Neither of these machines has a workable CD or DVD drive (ie one is a netbook and thus no built-in DVD drive, the other has a DVD burner but is broken). Of course, both machines have USB2 ports and can boot off of these.
In order to install, he downloaded file(s): devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso and devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_NETINST.iso Installed to a usb stick as follows: dd if=devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M sync But neither machine will boot either of these installed ISO files, even after fiddling with BIOS parameters. However, at my suggestion he also downloaded Refracta, which as all/most of you know is based on Devuan. Refracta booted fine on both machines, and installed easily to the hard drive. Now I'm trying to wrap my head around why the Refracta ISO boots with ease but Devuan doesn't. A little bit of online searching and I came upon this info about isohydrid files... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/isohybrid ...and this possible solution to the problem... http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid But before suggesting this experiment to my friend, I thought I'd walk it by the collective wisdom of this group. First, I have to ask: Are the Devuan ISO files we download not already isohybrid enabled? Any other possible reasons why the Refracta ISO files are USB bootable but the Devuan files are not? Am I on the right track here, or have I missed the boat entirely? Feel free to be merciless in your answers, I'm always happy to learn. cheers, Robert
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