| From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com
| On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote:
|
| I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte
| sectors and then only with MBR disks.
|
| I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks.
I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte
sectors and then only with MBR disks.
I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These
don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all the way (3T and 4T sizes
aren't good for MBR either).
I was thinking that I
On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote:
I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte
sectors and then only with MBR disks.
I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These
don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all
Flash drives tend to have firmware ahead of the drive access and
sometimes that means that they simply will not work as a boot device.
I am having good luck with Kingston DataTraveler G4 series drives. What I
do to load a Linux (Ubuntu 12 and Fedora 20 tried so far) is to first work
with
