That sounds like a good idea, esp. if based on experience. There's at least one Puppy disk lying around here somewhere. Mark
--- In [email protected], Joan Leach <jleach...@...> wrote: > > Perhaps you could browse this USB flash drive from Puppy Linux Live CD to do > your housekeeping? I had good luck a number of times on all types of drives > and flavors of OS or file systems so far. > > Good luck, > Joan in Reno > > --- On Mon, 10/18/10, Darksyde <m_alexande...@...> wrote: > > From: Darksyde <m_alexande...@...> > Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Cannot boot USB-based OS > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 11:10 AM > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], J <dreadpiratejeff@> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 15:23, Darksyde <m_alexander61@> wrote: > > > >  I have Mint 7, Gloria, on a persistent USB drive and cannot boot it. > > >  All goes well, even to the "From freedom came elegance" screen with the > > > status bar showing progress. > > > >  Then it hits a snag and a list of error messages come up, all with "no > > > available space" or "no space remaining", something like that, and an > > > "Error 28".  "Properties" of the > > > > drive show that there is 1 gig (out of 3.7) free, though this, I assume, > > > means little or nothing.  Filesystem type shows "msdos"- should that be > > > the case?  I never noticed > > > > before.  Though it probably doesn't matter, this is a purchased distro > > > and the drive is a Kingston. > > > > > > How much RAM do you have? IIRC, most of the live distros load their > > > filesystems into ramdisks, and if you've added stuff to the original > > > installation, you could be filling up the ramdisk, thus the out of > > > space error. And msdos is typical for flash drives... that or vfat... > > > they should all be generally formatted in fat32 these days. > > > > > > >  I've used this drive many times and I have loaded a bunch of apps into > > > it, but how do I access it to delete some files assuming this is > > > necessary?  When I open it, the usual > > > > files are visible (Casper, etc.) but nothing shows that (in my opinion) > > > could be deleted.  I assume that this is another case where the CLI will > > > come in handy, no? > > > >  FWIW, there's nothing on this drive that I can't live without, as I > > > recall, but the solution may come in handy in future when I plan to use > > > external drives more for an extra layer > > > > of security. > > > > > > How did you "load a bunch of apps into it"? Was the USB stick > > > installed with persistent storage? How much? Could you have more > > > stuff than you have persistent storage? How did you create the stick > > > to begin with? > > > > > > Well, maybe some of that will give you a good starting point. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > jeff > > > > > Lessee...I purchased the drive (from OSDisc I believe) and it came > preloaded with "Gloria" and configured to be persistent. "Properties" shows > that it has 1 Gig free of the 3.7 total. All apps were installed using > either the standard repositories or "apt-get install". It is most definitely > possible that I overloaded it, though, as mentioned, it supposedly has 1 Gig > free. I'm with you on that one, no matter what "Properties" shows, so I > figure there's got to be a way to get in there and do some house-cleaning via > the terminal. I have unmounted it and tried again with no luck, though I > never tried physically removing and replacing it as I didn't think that would > make any difference. > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
