Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/17/14, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD. Runs fine, but

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 07:33:23AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 8/17/14, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when I am wrong. Grml loads any iso placed in the /boot/grml directory. It modifies the grub2 menu,

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when I am wrong. Grml loads any iso placed in the /boot/grml directory.

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when I am wrong. Grml loads any iso placed in

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 10:50:48 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: Which ISO are you using? ElementaryOS...seems like a Gnome-based distro from what I've been able to gather but it replaces a lot of Gnome stuff with its own applications written in Vala

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/18/2014 12:39 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 01:01:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought. Please correct when

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/18/2014 01:27 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 10:50:48 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote: Which ISO are you using? ElementaryOS...seems like a Gnome-based distro from what I've been able to gather but it replaces a lot of Gnome stuff with its

iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into trouble updating the distro when it ran out of

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD.

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread sp113438
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and