Hi guys. I've been trying to avoid the mailing list with my noob banter email for a few days now. I know you don't want to spend your time helping out with requests the like of mine. However, I just can't for the life of me get Pure:dyne to boot (let alone install).
I have an Asus eeepc (701), so it's not very highly spec'd... I need to squeeze all the juice out of it that I can. It came pre-installed with a light version of Windows. I'm not to bothered about loosing it. But it would be sweet to dual boot for a while. I can't make a live usb, since there's no instructions for doing so on Mac OSX. I've tried formatting in all sorts of ways, using 'dd' in the terminal, copying it straight over. e.t.c. but nothing worked. If I hold escape on the eeepc during startup, it will allow me to select which device or operating system to load up. So I don't believe i need to install a bootloader. And selecting the USB stick always results in a blank screen. In the documentation for Dual Booting with Windows (which looks really easy), is written: - Open the CD or DVD drive and copy the "live" folder at the root of your C:\ drive. - leave the liveCD<http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/DocBurnBootCD>or liveDVD <http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/DocBurnBootDVD>and reboot. But in the first bullet point "at the root of your C:\ drive." Do you mean "to the root of your C:\ drive."? (which I have done, but still nothing) And in the second, by leave, do you mean eject, or just leave it (alone) in the CD/DVD drive? I don't have a way of 'leaving' the CD/DVD since I don't have a drive, but I have a USB stick, but copying it straight over certainly doesn't work. // In the Debian documentation, by 'dd'ing the 17 meg debian img to a usb stick and running it from windows, I managed to make a debian network installer, no problem. I just can't download debian as I don't have a proper internet connection to do it from. // also, What is the difference between the CD version and the DVD version of Pure:dyne also, also, I've heard about a realtime debian kernel being great for low latency audio. does puredyne use this kernal? Thanks so much, for reading my lengthy noob email! :)
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