After receiving a software update on the external HDD's Trisquel_7 right
after this exchange, I was thereafter greeted
with an offer to upgrade to Flidas ... I agreed, and followed all the various
prompts, answered a few "simple" questions,
was dragged away to a long lunch with friends in an
Magic Banana is clairvoyant as usual ...
"Yes: delete all the partitions that you do not need anymore and enlarge the
partitions adjacent to
them (in particular those containing data; the system does *not* require
hundreds of GB)."
Already did that ... works great ... plus, it was
Magic Banana suggested thoughtfully:
"If you do not trust the upgrade, do a fresh install on top of one of the
system on the internal drive (specify the same partition for / and the same
partition for /home but do *not* ask for formatting the latter)... and get
rid of all the other
Quoting Magic Banana:
I had said: Between the three HDD's, my T420 now has five Trisquel OS's ...
Followed by MB's optimistic reply: "Don't you want just one?! You can upgrade
one Trisquel 7 that is on the internal hard drive (faster) with
'do-release-upgrade -d' (no need for a fresh
Magic Banana wondered:
" I do not understand whether you are talking about a live system (e.g.,
created with Etcher) from which you access a filesystem (hence the 'mount')
or about a regular install but on an external disk."
Brief answer: either TQ installation procedure _demands_ that the
FYI Etcher is free code software, and it does seem effective and easy to use,
but there are some user respect issues with Etcher. See this thread for more
details:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/user-respect-issues-etcher
Like MagicBanana, I'm a bit confused about what you are trying to do. Are you
trying to use bootable USB stick to install Trisquel on an external USB hard
drive? If so, why? If not, where am I misunderstanding your goal?
pengnuin suggested that I try etcher.io ... after verifying that its
reputation is OK I downloaded it ... oops ...and downloaded the correct
version for my T420 laptop ... used the instructions from the raspberry.pi
website to install it ... and tried burning the same USB stick that failed
Hello George,
I recommend you take a look at https://etcher.io for creating live USB flash
drives. In my experience, it succeeds where other tools fail.
Still trying to make progress: I reformatted another USB dongle and made it
into a Live USB for Flidas ... which process went to completion, using the
Trisquel_8 download suggested in the sticky, same as for Belanos that has
always worked in the past.
This time the Live USB fails to boot,
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