On 16/07/2015 22:17, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >>> unetbootin to do the magic though. >> >> I highly recommend using the ArchLinux ISO, which can be burned to a >> flash drive with dd. It doesn’t have the gentoo-specific tools, but >> that’s really the only problem. UNetBootin has always been hit or miss >> for me. >> >> Alec > > Thank you both. Let's see if Alan is right and Neil offers a magic dd > recipe. When this is over I will update the wiki or at least add a > comment for the authors to consider. > > This was my first time using a flash drive. I presume that burning a > CD-R from the still works. Right?
It still worked last year :-) I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that thin round shiny thing about 5" across? What used to be used for music before Napster came along? Just checking I have it right.... -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
