On Tue 09 Aug 2011 at 16:14:38 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is not the first time I'm struggling trying to make a bootable
> USB flashdrive. . . . . . . .
[Rather a large snip]
> Could you help me in any of these attempts? Of course I don't expect
> you to help me debug prob
On 12/08/11 17:50, Christian Jaeger wrote:
I run Squeeze on the computer where I prepare the usb flashdrive, and
Lenny on the computer where I want to install mythbuntu (the T61).
Thank you for the clarification. I did spend some time trying to work
out which computer and OS you were referring
Christian Jaeger, 11.08.2011:
> 2011/8/9 Wolodja Wentland :
> > Why don't you follow the method
> > outlined in the installation guide?
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
>
> I'm trying to follow "4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick ?
> the flexible way"
I run Squeeze on the computer where I prepare the usb flashdrive, and
Lenny on the computer where I want to install mythbuntu (the T61).
I don't think asking fellow Debian users about compiling software on
Debian is offtopic.
I have checked Arnt advice by setting the boot flag on the partition
"b
On 12/08/11 13:33, Christian Jaeger wrote:
Many of your answers are rather aggressive, I won't reply to those.
Bah humbug, and bully for you. Your questions were answered, any
remaining issues are your own.
It (the .iso) is a single file. Recursive does not apply.
This is how I read it,
Many of your answers are rather aggressive, I won't reply to those.
> It (the .iso) is a single file. Recursive does not apply.
This is how I read it, too, but unetbootin does it different, it
copies the *contents* of the iso (like mounting the iso then cp -r).
When I say that the Ubuntu questio
On 12/08/11 08:53, Christian Jaeger wrote:
2011/8/9 Wolodja Wentland:
Why don't you follow the method outlined in the installation
guide?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
I'm trying to follow "4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick
� the flexible way".
Here
2011/8/9 Wolodja Wentland :
> Why don't you follow the method
> outlined in the installation guide?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
I'm trying to follow "4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick —
the flexible way".
Here are the questions not answered by this
I wanted to try this, but erroneously gave /dev/sdb1 instead of
/dev/sdb to fdisk (fdisk -l already showed weird information, and
cfdisk would even give a fatal error, but I was too stupid to realize
my mistake and thought that gparted, which I used to partition the
flashdrive, made the new partiti
> 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on flashdrive)
Well: typing from within the boot menu, then changing the first
two paths (something like "/ubnkern initrd=ubninit") to
"/install.amd/vmlinuz initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz" does make Debian
boot!!!
So this *almost* q
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:20:30 +0100, Wolodja wrote in message
<20110810002030.GD12149@asasello.local>:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:56 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> > 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on
> > flashdrive)
>
> Yes, unetbootin is and has been broken. W
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:56 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on flashdrive)
Yes, unetbootin is and has been broken. Why don't you follow the method
outlined in the installation guide?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04
So, I've downloaded
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso,
run "gparted /dev/sdb" to make a new partition table on my flashdrive
and one fat32 fs partition, run unetbootin and selected the downloaded
iso file and the flashdrive as target, try to b
Oh, I only realize now that I made the mistake of trying "IA64"
instead of x86_64, of course. Going to try with the right Debian
image. Thanks for spotting this!
Christian.
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It's got a Core 2 duo CPU, and I'm currently running the 64 bit
version of Lenny on it.
Also, I've tried the MythBuntu and XMBC 32 bit versions.
Christian.
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Dne 9.8.2011 22:14, piše Christian Jaeger:
Hello
This is not the first time I'm struggling trying to make a bootable
USB flashdrive. In fact, I've spent like 5-10 hours across various
times already, and I realize that I've been too stupid to document my
last endeavours enough to help me to get i
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