On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:31:36PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
On 2013-09-06, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
with UEFI machines where the simple
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method doesn't?
I don't have a UEFI boot machine, so I don't know.
One datapoint: my motherboard has UEFI bios, and
On 04/09/2013 00:13, Grant Edwards wrote:
Now I'm confused, let's clarify. Which of these meanings of copy are you
using:
cp my_big.iso /where/i/mounted/the/stick
dd if=my_big.iso of=/dev/sdb
Sorry about that. The latter. The actual command is shown about 32
lines up (except that my
You can also create a Grub2 bootable usb which launches ISO.
this is always useful to have.
for a while now Gentoo has supported being launched this way.
you need the following in your grub2 cfg
the crucial part is the /iso/install-amd64-minimal-20110714.iso (yeah
i know is an old iso but this
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:05:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
So what's the deal with http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO?
Why isn't it just the steps below?
1) Copy the minimal install .iso to USB mass storage device.
2) Boot from USB mass storage device.
I got the
On 03/09/2013 19:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
* My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a
USB
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:05:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
After running the isohybrid command, I compared the resulting image
with the original. They were identical. I copied the image to a USB
flash drive, and it booted just fine.
It seems that the minimal install .iso images are
On 03/09/2013 23:19, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-09-03, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/09/2013 19:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:13:29PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
IIRC, the last time I tried 'cp' it worked just as well as 'dd'
cp install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso /dev/sdb
Interesting. I assume that /dev/sdb was not mounted.
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