Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread David Sjölin
Hello! I think it would be a good idea to have clear instructions on how to put it on a USB. I bought a netbook a couple of years ago, and I couldn't get any distribution to install except Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and that's not the one I wanted, so instructions on how to get Mageia to install from

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Romain d'Alverny
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:52, Maarten Vanraes > wrote: >> So, >> >> I was talking to someone i know about Mageia, and she poked around the site, >> but then asked how to put the iso on an usbstick, since her netbook didn't >> have cdrom. >> >> I had to admit i didn't know exactly how, which bri

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 28 april 2011 10:01:53 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:52, Maarten Vanraes > > > > wrote: > >> So, > >> > >> I was talking to someone i know about Mageia, and she poked around the > >> site, but then asked how to put the iso on an usbstick, since her > >> ne

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread David Sjölin
Hello! I remember that when I created a usb from ISO I had some strange problem making the USB bootable. Maybe some comment on how to do that? I don't remember how I did it then, but I assume using fdisk or something? Dismount the USB, fidks /dev/sdb1 (or whatever it could be on the users computer

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Maarten Vanraes
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Maarten Vanraes > > wrote: > > Op donderdag 28 april 2011 10:01:53 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > >> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:52, Maarten Vanraes > >> > > >> > wrote: > >> >> So, > >> >> > >> >> I was talking to someone i know about Mageia, and she poked ar

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/4/28 David Sjölin : > Hello! > > I remember that when I created a usb from ISO I had some strange > problem making the USB bootable. Maybe some comment on how to do that? > I don't remember how I did it then, but I assume using fdisk or > something? Dismount the USB, fidks /dev/sdb1 (or whatev

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Anne nicolas
2011/4/28 Wolfgang Bornath : > 2011/4/28 David Sjölin : >> Hello! >> >> I remember that when I created a usb from ISO I had some strange >> problem making the USB bootable. Maybe some comment on how to do that? >> I don't remember how I did it then, but I assume using fdisk or >> something? Dismoun

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Greg Harris
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:59:20 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2011/4/28 David Sjölin : > > Hello! > > > > I remember that when I created a usb from ISO I had some strange > > problem making the USB bootable. Maybe some comment on how to do > > that? I don't remember how I did it then, but I assume

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Tux99
There is an easy to follow step by step user-contributed tutorial on how to use mandriva-seed in Windows on my website. It was written for Mandriva 2009.1 but I guess it should be usable for Mageia too. See here (in the right-hand column): http://www.linuxtech.net/news/mandriva_linux_2009.1_sprin

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread You-Cheng Hsieh
2011/4/29 Tux99 : > There is an easy to follow step by step user-contributed tutorial on how to > use mandriva-seed in Windows on my website. > It was written for Mandriva 2009.1 but I guess it should be usable for > Mageia too. > See here (in the right-hand column): > http://www.linuxtech.net/news

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-28 Thread Tux99
Quote: You-Cheng Hsieh wrote on Fri, 29 April 2011 03:59 > 2011/4/29 Tux99 : > > There is an easy to follow step by step user-contributed tutorial > > on how to use mandriva-seed in Windows on my website. > > It was written for Mandriva 2009.1

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-04-29 Thread You-Cheng Hsieh
2011/4/29 Tux99 : > Quote: You-Cheng Hsieh wrote on Fri, 29 April 2011 03:59 >> As Anne already pointed, Mandriva seed does not work on Windows Vista >> and 7. >> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55471 >> >> Either we could fix it, or find another way for Windows 7 and Vista >> users. > > Fa

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-05-02 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:52, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > So, > > I was talking to someone i know about Mageia, and she poked around the site, > but then asked how to put the iso on an usbstick, since her netbook didn't > have cdrom. > > I had to admit i didn't know exactly how, which brings me to m

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

2011-05-02 Thread Sergey Balbeko
Hello And why not ot push 'unetbootin' tool to the repo and provide a step-by-step how-to how to create a bootable flash using it? btw, you are right - to make a flash bootable - you finally need to set bootable flag using fdisk/cfdisk/similar-tools wbr, Sergey 2011/4/28 David Sjölin : > Hello!