Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 16 July 2015 20:53:56 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote: > >> Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for > >> someone to recommend system rescue CD. > > > > Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote: > >> Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for >> someone to recommend system rescue CD. > Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies. > You mean you counted? ROFL I been using sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote: > Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for > someone to recommend system rescue CD. Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 16 July 2015 17:39:16 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I will be trying system rescue CD. Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for someone to recommend system rescue CD. Glad you thought of it yourself ;-) Somewhere on the Web are some instructions on writing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2015-07-16,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/07/2015 22:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive (I rediscovered this anew

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > The Gentoo minim

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> > (I rediscovered this anew on Monda

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >> > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >> > unetb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive > > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use > > unetbootin to do the magic though. > > Has that changed

[gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use > unetbootin to do the magic though. Has that changed recently? I tought the minimal ISO was already "hybrid" and