Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
Though it may appear as if I was being ironic in my last comment, I don't think you've exceeded in your harshness. I'm not offended and it did indeed help me to question my reliance on this software. So my thank you was sincere, though it kind of felt like a bitchslap.. :) ---BeginMessage--- On

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-05 Thread André Nunes Batista
Well, fair enough, I'll give isohybrid a try. I it's certainly a shame that I am stuck to something I first tried when the command line caused me the creeps. Nonetheless, my advice was addressed to someone who might be felling discouraged after trying to follow cryptic instructions on command

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Jun 2013 at 13:21:22 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: Well, fair enough, I'll give isohybrid a try. I it's certainly a shame that I am stuck to something I first tried when the command line caused me the creeps. Nonetheless, my advice was addressed to someone who might be felling

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-04 Thread André Nunes Batista
+1 to unetbootin! I've been using it for long years with different flash drives, machines (not many processor architectures though) and distributions and it never even gave an error message. Configuration couldn't be easier on gnu newbie. Unless you want to get a better comprehension on the

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Jun 2013 at 15:01:08 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: +1 to unetbootin! I'm sure this is a fine piece of software. But this is 2013 and we are talking about installing Debian. The recommended, up-to-date and trouble-free way of getting an ISO on a USB stick is with dd, cat or cp. Use

Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-02 Thread JC
I am hesitant to post to this list because perusing some of the entries show that the answers are technical way over my head, but here we go. I have made a bootable USB stick(32G) with Debian 7 i386 using my Ubuntu 10.04 system on my laptop which has an Intel chip. It appeared to work OK.

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-02 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Jun 2013 at 12:14:27 -0500, JC wrote: I am hesitant to post to this list because perusing some of the entries show that the answers are technical way over my head, but here we go. It's not just the answers which are technical, it's the questions also. :) I have made a bootable USB

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-02 Thread SMBS
El 02/06/13 19:14, JC escribió: I am hesitant to post to this list because perusing some of the entries show that the answers are technical way over my head, but here we go. I have made a bootable USB stick(32G) with Debian 7 i386 using my Ubuntu 10.04 system on my laptop which has an Intel

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, JC wrote: I am hesitant to post to this list because perusing some of the entries show that the answers are technical way over my head, but here we go. I have made a bootable USB stick(32G) with Debian 7 i386 using my Ubuntu 10.04 system on my laptop which has an Intel