Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-12 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2013 12:32 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi > > Those SanDisk drive are a real pain you can use them but you are > going to have to fdisk it first there is stuff on there that stops > Linux dead in it's tracks i have several of them the 4Gb on

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-12 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:00:28 +0200 Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 AM, David Benfell > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi all, > > > > I can't believe I'm having trouble with this. I'm trying to follow > > the directions at > > ht

Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent, ssh keys, and systemd --user

2013-04-12 Thread Sebastian Schwarz
On 2013-04-11 at 22:50 +1000, Robbie Smith wrote: > if (( $+commands[gpg-agent] )); then > local InfoFile=/run/user/$(id -u)/gpg-agent.info > if [[ -s $InfoFile ]]; then > eval "$(cat $InfoFile)" > fi > unset InfoFile > fi > > Strangely enough, this doesn’t see

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-12 Thread David Benfell
On 4/12/2013 11:23 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > Before you do that, did you try using the tool mentioned in the Ubuntu > thread to remove unwanted firmware partitions, if any? If not, you may > want to format the entire thing with an HP legacy formatting tool.¹ > I've used it successfully in the past to

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 12 April 2013 10:00, David Benfell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 4/11/2013 6:00 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >> >> It's possible the drive just can't be used for anything but what >> SanDisk intended (and support will just tell you that "Linux is >> not su