won't setting a label and identifying the drive by label (rather than
/dev/*) prevent that?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:27 PM, JD Austin wrote:
> I've had the best luck with usb3 drives even if the computer only supports
> usb2.0.
> You can just burn a bootable cd/dvd and instal
I've had the best luck with usb3 drives even if the computer only supports
usb2.0.
You can just burn a bootable cd/dvd and install it as if it were a hard
drive.
Keep in mind if you unplug it and plug in other usb devices it's device
name may change so your best choice is plug it in the same usb po
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
This PC doesn't have USB 3.0, will USB 2.0 be fast enough?
Probably. It won't be as fast as SATA, but it took 58 seconds to rsync
my ~ to a USB2 disk just now. 140G of stuff, 125M transferred, and this
is a spinny disk--a flash disk might be f
I would probably prefer a USB. I have lots of them laying around in sizes
ranging from 1Gb to 16Gb.
Anysites that explain how to installLinux to a USB drive suchthat the system
would view it as a hard drive?
Thanks!
Peter
On 4/24/2014 4:58 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
There are a few ways to
What I normally do is to boot any computer off of an install CD and find the
USB partition.
Then I run a plain vanilla install to that partition.
For as long as you don't get creative with X drivers, it will boot your
washing machine.
As usual, YMMV and you can't sue me.
Free advice... :)
ET
There are a few ways to do this, from installing to the USB as if it were a
hard drive. or setting up a livecd with persistence (this would pair well
with a load to ram option for the livcd)
just depends on how big a Thumb drive you have, and how much persistence
you want.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 a
Hi All,
I have a spare desktop computer and monitor sitting in the garage that I
want to set up for my 10 year old son, but it doesn't have a hard drive.
I'd rather not have to buy another hard drive (even though they are
pretty cheap).
I've read somewhere that Linux can be run from a USB fl
Yes.
Michael Havens writes:
stupid file is 2.5 gig darn. I need to get a dvd (I don't have any).
will cdrecord also work with dvds?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:25 AM, wrote:
cdrecord -v ${ISO_NAME} && echo GOOD && eject
ET
Michael Havens writes:
I'm trying to b
stupid file is 2.5 gig darn. I need to get a dvd (I don't have any).
will cdrecord also work with dvds?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:25 AM, wrote:
> cdrecord -v ${ISO_NAME} && echo GOOD && eject
> ET
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burn
On 2014-04-24 11:17, Michael Havens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burner is not working. It
says:
Please wait until the estimation of the size is completed.
All files need to be analysed to complete this operation.
A
cdrecord -v ${ISO_NAME} && echo GOOD && eject
ET
Michael Havens writes:
I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burner is not working. It says:
Please wait until the estimation of the size is completed.
All files need to be analysed to complete this operation.
and has been say
oops how does one discover the /dev of the dvd recorder?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I think I'll try growisofs but I'm burning a cd not dvd does it matter?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Mike Ballon wrote:
>
>> dmesg
I think I'll try growisofs but I'm burning a cd not dvd does it matter?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Mike Ballon wrote:
> dmesg output? message log?
>
> FYI: "dd if=/home/myuser/my.iso of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0" or
> man growisofs
>
> above not tested, writing from memor
dmesg output? message log?
FYI: "dd if=/home/myuser/my.iso of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0" or man growisofs
above not tested, writing from memory...
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burner is not working. It says:
>
>Please wa
you could try this as a plan B:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/13/burn-an-iso-image-from-the-command-line/
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burner is not working. It says:
>
>Please wait until the estimation of the size is com
I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burner is not working. It says:
Please wait until the estimation of the size is completed.
All files need to be analysed to complete this operation.
and has been saying so for the past 15 minutes and the progress bar has
remained static that entire
yep. thats typically troubleshooting 101. start from the wall socket and work
inward. :)
-eric
On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> There can be all sorts of things that can make a machine not work. Recently
> this beast died. It just went off like it would if the plug had bee
it keeps putting html code into a text document. How do I tell it not to go
that or which editor should I use?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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