On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:40 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:39:56 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
Does your system have USB 3 ports? USB 3 is currently broken on the
installcd images.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554202
The system on which it failed for me has one USB 3 port, but it also
failed in the USB 2 port.
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I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the
kernel is loaded.
However after asking for the keymap (I just hit enter)
it types
On 07/16/2015 01:17 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu 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.
Is the partition table valid after you used dd to copy it over? If it
On 16/07/2015 22:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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.
I highly recommend using the ArchLinux
2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:44:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic
incantation that lets dd do what you want :-)
It's simple, use System Rescue Cd ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
B?#$^f, said Pooh, as line noise garbled his transmission.
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that
thin round shiny thing about 5 across? What used to be used for music
before Napster came along? Just checking I have it right
That's right, it's like a Blu-Ray
On 16/07/2015 18:40, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the
kernel is loaded.
However after
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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
On 16/07/2015 23:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that
thin round shiny thing about 5 across? What used to be used for music
before Napster came along? Just checking I have it
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote:
2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I
On 16/07/2015 22:01, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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
2015-07-16 14:44 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on
another (gentoo) machine.
* Tries to boot an Image, 4+ hours later and after asking help to the
mailing list, still no success in booting, has had no trouble with the
gentoo
dd worked for me last month :)
josh
On Jul 16, 2015 3:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/07/2015 22:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:40 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the
kernel is loaded.
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote:
2015-07-16 14:44 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on
another (gentoo) machine.
* Tries to boot an Image, 4+ hours later and after asking help to the
mailing list, still no success in
2015-07-16 15:33 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
I was commenting on the use of the minimal CD rather than a fancy one
that had X etc. I have indeed had tremendous trouble this time and it
is getting worse.
Is not about fanciness, Is abut having the tools you need for the job,
I understand you
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:44:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic
incantation that lets dd do what you want :-)
I tried it on my laptop and it refused to work. Dropping to a shell, I
found there was no /dev/sdb, no wonder the init
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