On 12/16/24 12:19, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:06:18 -0500
gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
I rebooted, and found that k3b still suffers from the lag. Which
apparently messes with its mind. In 2 different dvd writers in this
machine, I was not able to burn the unzipped .iso into a bootable
dvd+rw disk.
I think a CD is probably safer for something the size of a netinstall.
If I still had a cd, but the 100 count spindle I bought nearly 20 years
ago seems to have died from room lighting. Neither drive recognizes
them after nearly 20 years under ccfl, and now led lighting. The
commercial music cd's even older are fine, but the recordables
apparently fade under room lighting in 10 years or so. Only those in the
AOL tin boxes are readable today.
I finally used dd to put it on a 32G usb key which
worked, 32 gigs of ram is all good. And after the reboot, t-bird is
unable to save the draft again. But this is the first time I have
booted anything from usb! That is a huge advantage. So I'll see if a
netinstall will boot from a key.
It certainly should, and will boot with the installer in either legacy
or UEFI mode depending on the environment it finds. It's quite a few
years since laptops came with optical drives (I have one of the last)
so everything has to boot from USB now. Modern Windows images are too
large for a DVD.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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