Partial resolution - was [Re: Three trials installing LILO - was [Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive]]

2013-04-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: I made three attempts to install using LILO as boot loader from most defaults to most customized: 1. install using all of the single install hard drive (using guided partitioning) 2. install to a logical partition after resizing partition created above 3. install

Re: Three trials installing LILO - was [Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive]

2013-04-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.04.2013 23:34, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: You will have to give it the OSes you want to use. If you did not specifically add the correct lines, you will not be able to boot the first OS, since LILO have no clue about it's existence. I had

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-18 Thread agroconsultor0
On 04/16/2013 12:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or without persistence. Due

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-18 Thread Curt
On 2013-04-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: I booted the installation up in kvm (with -m 1024) (I chose the LXDE desktop); it's pretty damn snappy even when run inside the virtual machine. Much snappier than the live isohybrid with LXDE I put on a usb stick and ran in kvm in the same

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2013-04-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: I booted the installation up in kvm (with -m 1024) (I chose the LXDE desktop); it's pretty damn snappy even when run inside the virtual machine. Much snappier than the live isohybrid with LXDE I put on a usb stick and ran in kvm in

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
agroconsultor0 wrote: On 04/16/2013 12:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or without

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-18 Thread agroconsultor0
On 04/18/2013 02:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: agroconsultor0 wrote: On 04/16/2013 12:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
agroconsultor0 wrote: On 04/18/2013 02:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: agroconsultor0 wrote: On 04/16/2013 12:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer

Three trials installing LILO - was [Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive]

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
I made three attempts to install using LILO as boot loader from most defaults to most customized: 1. install using all of the single install hard drive (using guided partitioning) 2. install to a logical partition after resizing partition created above 3. install to flash drive

Re: Three trials installing LILO - was [Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive]

2013-04-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.04.2013 20:56, Richard Owlett a écrit : CASE 2 Installation ran to normal finish. On reboot I had a correct shell which accepted login. After executing su, I did apt-get install gnome-session gdm3 gedit gnome-terminal gparted which ran to completion without

Re: Three trials installing LILO - was [Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive]

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.04.2013 20:56, Richard Owlett a écrit : CASE 2 Installation ran to normal finish. On reboot I had a correct shell which accepted login. After executing su, I did apt-get install gnome-session gdm3 gedit gnome-terminal gparted

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 16 avril 2013 21:46, Richard Owlett a écrit : CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or without persistence.

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2013-04-16, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or without

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2013-04-16, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2013-04-17, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I think we have different ideas of full install to a USB flash drive ;/ We do? I want to wander from machine to machine carrying only the flash drive resulting in picking up my work where I left off. If I understand your

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I think we have different ideas of full install to a USB flash drive ;/ We do? I want to wander from machine to machine carrying only the flash drive resulting in picking up my work where I left off. If I understand your description correctly,

Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or without persistence. Due to constraints of another personal project I

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:46:07PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: *QUESTION:* Is there a way to defeat/disable OS_PROBER(sp?) during installation? Os-prober is at most a 'recommends' of grub. You can quite easily not install it if you wish. I'm not sure if os-prober can be skipped if it's

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Apr 2013 at 14:46:07 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: My second attempt was using Grub 1.99. It almost worked satisfactorily. As I saw no way to disable OS_PROBER(sp?) during the install, the menu written to the flash drive includes the Operating Systems on the piece of hardware used to