Re: Troubles with gnome-format -- Aaarrgghhh

2009-05-23 Thread Beartooth 
On Sat, 23 May 2009 10:26:41 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 14:37 +, Beartooth wrote:
[]
>>  Inserted into this machine, it automounts, and Properties shows
>> it as /media/disk. When I try to format it, either to FAT or to ext2,
>> it pops up an error saying permission is denied -- for /dev/sdc
> 
> Use /dev/sdc1.

When I do that, I no longer get the error message; but noting 
visible happens; and when I look again at the stick, it still shows the 
same content as before.

I tried (several times) using liveusb-creator, figuring that 
would wipe at least enough.

It kept telling me (among a variety of other errors) that it 
found no live image -- on .isos that I know are, and that I have used as 
live CDs.

Finally I tried F10-Beta-i686-Live.iso, just to get one with 
"live" right in the name. It seemed to take that, and got as far as 96%; 
next time I looked, liveusb-creator looked as if it had just been 
launched. No report of success or anything else.

I unmounted, re-mounted, and started looking for something 
readable. /boot/grub/menu.lst says Eeedora! That's neither what got 
zapped nor what I was trying to install -- I suppose it must be left over 
from the rest of the stick after Cruncheee 

I unmounted and removed it, and willpresently try booting the 
EeePC from it. Stay tuned.
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Re: Troubles with gnome-format -- Aaarrgghhh

2009-05-23 Thread Beartooth 
On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:57:38 +, Beartooth wrote:
[...]
>   I unmounted, re-mounted, and started looking for something
> readable. /boot/grub/menu.lst says Eeedora! That's neither what got
> zapped nor what I was trying to install -- I suppose it must be left
> over from the rest of the stick after Cruncheee 
> 
>   I unmounted and removed it, and will presently try booting the
> EeePC from it. Stay tuned.

For some reason, whenever I put a thumbstick into the EeePC, it 
offers to boot from either of two. Usually one of those choices leads 
merely to a grub error; it did this time.

When I chose the other (apparently Eeedora), however, it booted 
Crunchee. 

Crunchee is what's on the hard drive; my guess is that the first, 
imaginary stick confuses Grub; but that the second simply defaults to the 
hard drive. Iow, that ex-Crunchee stick, which should have F10 Live, and 
pretends to have Eeedora, actually has nothing bootable at all. This 
despite my attempts to format it with gnome-format and to install any of 
several live CDs with liveusb-creator.

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