oh and md5sum checking means mounting the usb stick, opening a terminal in the directory that contains the file 'md5sum.txt' and running this command:
md5sum -c md5sum.txt On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Tyler Leavitt <[email protected]>wrote: > If you got errors, what exactly were the errors? Describe what you mean by > "doesn't work". It could be any numbe rof things... > > Tyler > > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]>wrote: > >> i always md5sum check mine if i have a problem. I have consistently run >> into a problem where i'll make my usb stick, check it, its fine, try to >> boot, it doesnt work, and then check it again and have a few errors. >> redoing the install and trying again seems to work most of the time. >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> hi,yeah, i changed the boot-settings in my bios, maybe i will try another >>> usb stick, this was suspicious... >>> >>> Citējot *chr <[email protected]> <[email protected]>*: >>> >>> Am 13.05.2011 04:52, schrieb F. Medeiros: >>> > I can confirm that it works for me but only if the file system is ext2. >>> for me too, it worked fine with ext2 >>> >>> i just created with gparted the two partitions... >>> ...it does not work on macs >>> but on other machines i have never had problems >>> >>> did you changed the boot-settings in your bios? >>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Puredyne/Booting_a_live_USB_stick >>> >>> ...some old pc's also do not support booting from usb-stick (my old >>> pentium 1-laptop couldnt do it, f.ex) >>> >>> greetings >>> >>> christian >>> > >>> > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:44 -0700, KarlHungus wrote: >>> >> hi, i tried to create puredyne usb stick with unetbootin method using >>> >> puredyne-911-carrot_and_coriander-DVD-i386. i followed instructions >>> created >>> >> primary partition and logical drive live-rw and burned the iso with >>> >> unetbootin but unfortunately my stick can't boot, can someone confirm >>> that >>> >> this method actually works? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> View this message in context: >>> http://puredyne.466513.n3.nabble.com/creating-usb-stick-with-unetbootin-tp2934065p2934065.html >>> >> Sent from the Puredyne mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >> --- >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>> >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >>> > >>> > --- >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>> > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> [email protected] >>> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >>> >> >> >> --- >> [email protected] >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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