Sorry, I missed that question. I have not put it on a stick as yet, not even the (relatively) small DVD image. I tried using ISO2USB but couldn't get the thing to boot. I don't know if it was because my thumb drive wouldn't cooperate, or just what, but I definitely did make it work with ISO2USB and another 4GB image of a Windows installer that worked just peachy. The USB thumb drive idea was just something I thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry it around and use on various hardwares I encounter on a regular basis in my travels as the itinerant accessible computing guy. I can install Windows, and now at least two Linux distros accessibly, meaning "without third party assistance."
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:51:32 +0000, you wrote: >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:26:10 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >If you are experimenting I would choose Manual partitioning and go for a >single 10/20 GB partition. You are not exactly installing very much and >that is plenty. > >A repeat question: how did you get the ISO on a USB stick? (Assuming >this is what you did). > > >> I chose the partition scheme offering separate /, /home, /var and /tmp >> partitions. I would have preferred to put /home on a different >> physical drive only because everything else will be living on an SSD >> and I would prefer to keep the writes to that disk at a minimum. I >> have an extra rotating disk of size 250GB I could easily use for >> /home, and I suppose I could eventually move /home to that drive, but >> for now, all of this is purely experimental and learning, so anything >> I do that's wrong or inefficient can easily be redone in a matter of >> minutes. >> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:13:26 +0000, you wrote: >> >> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 12:49:25 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote >> > >> >As a matter of interest, how did you partition the disk? What >> >partitioning scheme did you use? >> > >> >Also, you might have, I think, written the DVD-1 ISO image to a USB >> >stick from within Windows. How did you do it? >> > >> >I went through the speech synthesis install using the visual prompts >> >and, when it came to the task selection stage (install >> >additional software), chose "8 9 11". There was no problem with this. >> > >> > >> >> Frankly, neither can I, and I also can't see why the "install >> >> additional software" procedure in Step 14 would fail, but it did, and >> >> there we are. I'll try DVD 1 again now. At least I won't have to go >> >> through the disk partitioning business again. That part is all done. >> >> >> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:30 +0000, you wrote: >> >> >> >> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. >> >> > >> >> >"Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu. >> >> > >> >> >The only major difference between DVD-1 and the netinst ISO is the first >> >> >gets packages from the DVD (if there is no mirror) whereas the second >> >> >will get some of them from the net (a mirror is needed). I cannot see >> >> >why using a netinst ISO is any better than DVD-1. >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >
