A-haaa! I just realised I never tried setting the boot flag on the
partition I copied an ISO to (with dd), when trying to boot from a
USB device.
As for the difficultly of the course... let's just say the first
paper was entirely on how to use your web brows- I mean how to use
Internet Explorer. And it hasn't advanced all that much. AND they
use poorly formatted HTML 3.2. AND... I could go on for MUCH longer.
I was asking about WYSIWYG editors out of curiosity.
On 19/09/2007, at 6:06 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
On Wed, September 19, 2007 14:05, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Hello,
I have decided there are too many things too learn about
customising live CDs to be worth it for me. So I'm going to
install DSL to
a USB pen drive to play with. BUT... how do I find out if the pen
drive I
have acts like a ZIP drive, or a hard disk drive? Is it as simple as
whether it has a partition table, or just one filesystem on the whole
device?
I'm not sure what the mechanism is, but here's a tutorial.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/02/all-in-one-usb-dsl
The tricky part is making sure your PC is capable of booting from a
USB
device. Most modern ones are, but you have to turn on the
capability (or
verify its existence) in the BIOS. This is mentioned in step 7 of the
tutorial.
And on an unrelated matter: what would be the closest free and open
source program to Microsoft Front Page? I have never used it, but
I'm
taking this REALLY brain-dead distance course in "Internet and
webpages",
and the people running this thing said, before I applied, that
using Linux
would be no problem, and yet they only give instructions for MS Front
Page. I've just been using Emacs (which I
prefer anyway), but I would like to know what would have the closest
interface to Micro...MS..... oh don't make me type all that again!
Hmm. If you can't use FrontPage, but you don't think emacs is
suitable
then can I suggest 'vi'? I have heard that emacs will do many of the
things that vi does, so you should have no problem.
All joking aside, FrontPage is a web-authoring tool. It provides a
WYSIWYG interface to the user, and behind the scenes produces the
equivalent HTML. It also allows you to put 'special effects' on your
webpage using 'FrontPage Extensions' on the server (which, as you can
imagine, you don't really want). It is akin to Adobe DreamWeaver
or the
defunct Linux Nvu program. Depending on what level your distance
learning
course is aimed at you will probably find you can achieve the desired
results with hand-edited HTML in your favourite text editor.
A
