hello, i've been having trouble with an old laptop and its CD drive. In order to even get pure:dyne to boot I was forced to use a regular CD-R, and when trying to install I get an I/O error.
Instead of trying to burn another disc (I did successfully install on another machine with it after all, plus I'm out of CD-Rs) I thought perhaps I'd try to make a liveUSB and install from that. However, my machine is old enough that it doesn't seem to want to boot from USB at all. So after a frustrating night, I decided the easiest thing I could think of to get a puredyne realtime kernel and start doing stuff was to grab the old leek and potato kernel on my already running debian system and go from there. my goal was to get this laptop with a stable realtime setup so I can use it for a performance next saturday. I could run just from the liveCD, but I don't really want to chance something going wrong in the middle of a set. For now, this solution seems okay, but I would like access to the newer software and kernel. I guess I'm just bringing it up in case anyone had any solutions or work arounds in case something like this happens to anyone else. I was thinking that perhaps I could make a partition on the drive to be a liveHD install of C&C? It seemed like the make-live-device script wouldn't work for that because of an issue where if I put /dev/sda3 it was trying to create partitions /dev/sda31 and /dev/sda32. Perhaps there's a minor change to the script that could be made to allow it to live on a partition of a drive? Or perhaps there's another method to put the ISO somewhere and make it bootable? It seemed like there was a way with leek&potato, but I wasn't sure with C&C. Any ideas? -grant
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