Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-15 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi Cameron, I guess nothing wrong laptop usb BIOS, just familiarity how to setup the boot sequences - plug'nplay BIOS. Probably you can add Unetbootin in the wiki as well. I find it easy to use and a lot advance features. You can even created you own "live hard" in one of your drive partitions.

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Mandel
Ah, crazy that's totally it. The usb device must be in when I go the BIOS settings, and a new option showed up in the Boot area to order the Hard Drives. Removable Device != USB stick So strange, thanks for the hint. It works fine now. Alex On 08/14/2010 11:06 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote: > My first

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel Kastl
My first bios settings for boot order failed, because I moved the "removable device" up in the boot menu order, but surprisingly this wasn't my USB stick. The USB stick was listed under hard drives option, which showed a "+" and contained a list of drives including the USB drive. I had to move it u

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/14/2010 05:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: > Hi Cameron, > >> Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates >> however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at >> least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute >> OSGeo-Live to all de

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-14 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi Cameron, > Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates > however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at > least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute > OSGeo-Live to all delegates on the well tested DVD version. These lap

[OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

2010-08-14 Thread Cameron Shorter
The FOSS4G Organising Committee have budget to distribute OSGeo-Live either on a DVD or USB. Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will dist