Over the years, I've tried several different utilities such as tuxboot
and unetbootin, with varied success. More recently, a co-worker pointed
me to Rufus...
https://rufus.akeo.ie/
It's easier to use than the alternatives, and has given me far fewer
issues with various picky BIOSes not wanting to boot from the resulting
image.
I don't know if this will solve your issue, but it's worth a try!
Gilbert
On 15/05/2018 4:46 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote:
I have a similar situation. I created an SL 7.5 "everything" 16.0 Gb
USB 3.0 flash disk using unetbootin on windows 10. But, I no luck
with my Dell. I will report when I'm back at my remote site; it is
sitting at the BIOS prompt now...
Carl Friedberg
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:01 PM
To: SL Users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Loading SL 7.5 from Flash Drive
On 05/15/2018 03:19 PM, Larry Linder wrote:
I have a usb 3 - 16 G flash drive.
When I try to drag and drop "SL 7.5 everything" it gets to 4.2 G and
quits. After about 1 minute it come back and says that it cannot splice
file.
The crual joke is that when you move the partial file to trash - no
delte option is available. It creates a .Trash folder. Two tries and
you dont have enough space.
Nice idea but DUMB. Oper a terminal mode and us "rm -rf *" and you are
back in business.
I there any way around the 4 G limit and where does it come from ?
Thank You
Larry Linder
Are you dragging the iso to a formatted usb drive? If so, you might be
running into the filesystem limits. Also, it won't boot that way. If
you want to boot directly, you will need to 'dd' the file to the raw
device node of the usb drive (e.g. /dev/sdb). This will wipe anything
that is already on the drive. Otherwise you will have to use some
bootloader that is filesystem aware like unetbootin or whatever it is
called.
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <[email protected]>
Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161
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