Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:15:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > That's because most distros, and all top quality cover discs, use > > hybrid ISO images that avoid the pain associated with the likes > > of Unetbootin. > > If you run across one that doesn't work, you do ***NOT*** need to > screw aro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 01:07:48AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:37:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > [1] Despite all steps explained in the blog posts on how to build a > > bootable flash drive based on an ISO image, I've found that for > > everything except

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:37:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > [1] Despite all steps explained in the blog posts on how to build a > bootable flash drive based on an ISO image, I've found that for > everything except systemrescuecd, all I have ever had do is: > > dd if=whatever.is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 29 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-06-26, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical >> drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first >> thought was to get a drive that is both >>a blue ray READER and

[gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-26, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical > drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first > thought was to get a drive that is both >a blue ray READER and >a dvd writer AFAIK, none of my current com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 28 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:10:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I have a blu-ray reader, plugged into my Kodi machine. It's never had a >> BR disk in it, instead, it plays CDs! > > I have a Blu-Ray reader in my desktop, it's a nice fast DVD-RW drive :) Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:10:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I have a blu-ray reader, plugged into my Kodi machine. It's never had a > BR disk in it, instead, it plays CDs! I have a Blu-Ray reader in my desktop, it's a nice fast DVD-RW drive :) > On the very few times I've needed to do something w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread gottlieb
thank you alan and walt. allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/06/2015 23:34, walt wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:18:45 -0400 > gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical >> drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first >> thought was to get a drive that is both >>a blue

[gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-27 Thread walt
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:18:45 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical > drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first > thought was to get a drive that is both >a blue ray READER and >a dvd writer > > I nai