Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-23 Thread brownh
Jimmy, Just to close the thread and to thank you for your help, I ultimately discovered that my inability to get a netinst or netbook installation from a USB-key to work was not due to an error on the key. It seems a hardware error (new box). That is, nothing boots except occasionally by accident

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
brownh wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: brownh wrote: Jimmy, I inadvertangly sent this message to you personally, but here send it to the list. The directions for creating a bootable USB key don't mention running cfdisk on it to make it bootable. I simply copied syslinux to the key

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-14 Thread brownh
Jimmy Johnson writes: > brownh wrote: >> Jimmy, >> >> I inadvertangly sent this message to you personally, but here send it >> to the list. >> >> The directions for creating a bootable USB key don't mention running >> cfdisk on it to make it boo

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
brownh wrote: Jimmy, I inadvertangly sent this message to you personally, but here send it to the list. The directions for creating a bootable USB key don't mention running cfdisk on it to make it bootable. I simply copied syslinux to the key, but suspect I have to run cfdisk as well. Is

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-14 Thread brownh
Jimmy, I inadvertangly sent this message to you personally, but here send it to the list. The directions for creating a bootable USB key don't mention running cfdisk on it to make it bootable. I simply copied syslinux to the key, but suspect I have to run cfdisk as well. Is that so? H

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use a usb key as installation media. I followed the instructions given here earlier but Unetbootin but did not produce a bootable stick. When trying to boot with that stick I get an error that says "/No/ DEFAULT or /UI configuration/ directive found".

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:40 PM, James Stuckey wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to use a usb key as installation media. I followed the >> instructions given here earlier but Unetbootin but did not produce a >> bootable stick. When tryin

Re: Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:40 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use a usb key as installation media. I followed the > instructions given here earlier but Unetbootin but did not produce a > bootable stick. When trying to boot with that stick I get an error that says > "No DEFAULT o

Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-13 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I'm trying to use a usb key as installation media. I followed the instructions given here earlier but Unetbootin but did not produce a bootable stick. When trying to boot with that stick I get an error that says "*No* DEFAULT or *UI configuration* directive found". I tried running it again