Well, I've had some luck. I was able to get unetbootin installed and load a
distro to the USB (when I check the USB properties I can see the distro). I
was never able to get a distro to install from a USB, but that may be my
home computers not being able to boot from the USB. In a separate
experiement, I found that "elive" has a special program to load elive to a
usb. I did that and took the usb to work where I have a newer computer and
it booted there absolutely no problem. In fact, it happened so fast I
missed it. But I think it booted without going through the usual loading.
My question now is: so far, on my home computers I have been going into the
boot menu and clicking on usb to be first in boot sequence. This hasn't
worked so far. Then I went into BIOS Setup and put usb first in boot
sequence. That didn't work either. There is another BIOS setting (other
than boot sequence), called HARD DISK DRIVE. The choices there are: 1)
"System BIOS boot devices" and 2) "USB Device". I am able to switch the
order so "USB Device" is first and "System BIOS boot devices" is second, but
I thought I better run it past you guys first. I'd hate to do it and find I
can't boot from the USB and I can no longer get into BIOS to switch it back
to "System BIOS boot devices". Should I leave HARD DISK DRIVE alone? Or
should I change it to "USB Device"
Thanks,
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lowenstein" <[email protected]>
To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Installation to a USB
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Phil Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
Still no luck. When I do: ./unetbootin-linux-344 I get:
./unetbootin-linux-344: error while loading shared libraries:
libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I looked for libpng in Synaptic and I find: libpng12-0 is installed.
I looked for libpng12.so.0, Synaptic can't find it.
I think that you need to install "libpng-devel" in addition to "libpng".
That is where libpng12.so.0 comes from.
carl
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