On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:31:36PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
> On 2013-09-06, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
> >
> >> Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
> >> with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method do
On 2013-09-06, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
>
>> Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
>> with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method doesn't?
>
> I don't have a UEFI boot machine, so I don't know.
>
>> One
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
> Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
> with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method doesn't?
I don't have a UEFI boot machine, so I don't know.
> One datapoint: my motherboard has UEFI bios, and
On 2013-09-04, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:05:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
>
>> So what's the deal with http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO?
>>
>> Why isn't it just the steps below?
>>
>> 1) Copy the minimal install .iso to USB mass storage device.
>>
>> 2) Boot
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:05:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
> So what's the deal with http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO?
>
> Why isn't it just the steps below?
>
> 1) Copy the minimal install .iso to USB mass storage device.
>
> 2) Boot from USB mass storage device.
I got the
On 2013-09-04, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:13:29PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
>>
>> IIRC, the last time I tried 'cp' it worked just as well as 'dd'
>>
>> cp install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso /dev/sdb
>
> Interesting. I assume that /dev/sdb was not mounted.
Correct. I wo
You can also create a Grub2 bootable usb which launches ISO.
this is always useful to have.
for a while now Gentoo has supported being launched this way.
you need the following in your grub2 cfg
the crucial part is the /iso/install-amd64-minimal-20110714.iso (yeah
i know is an old iso but this al
On 04/09/2013 00:13, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Now I'm confused, let's clarify. Which of these meanings of copy are you
>> > using:
>> >
>> > cp my_big.iso /where/i/mounted/the/stick
>> >
>> > dd if=my_big.iso of=/dev/sdb
> Sorry about that. The latter. The actual command is shown about 32
> lines
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:13:29PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
>
> IIRC, the last time I tried 'cp' it worked just as well as 'dd'
>
> cp install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso /dev/sdb
Interesting. I assume that /dev/sdb was not mounted.
--
Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run
On 2013-09-03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 23:19, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2013-09-03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 03/09/2013 19:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes wrote:
[...]
> isohybrid install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso
[...]
> * I then copied it over
On 03/09/2013 23:19, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-09-03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 03/09/2013 19:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
*
On 2013-09-03, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:05:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
>
>> After running the isohybrid command, I compared the resulting image
>> with the original. They were identical. I copied the image to a USB
>> flash drive, and it booted just fine.
>>
>> It see
On 2013-09-03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 19:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>>> For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
>>>
>>> * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, excep
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:05:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
> After running the isohybrid command, I compared the resulting image
> with the original. They were identical. I copied the image to a USB
> flash drive, and it booted just fine.
>
> It seems that the minimal install .iso images are
On 03/09/2013 19:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
>>
>> * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a
>> USB stick. The sti
On 2013-01-07, Walter Dnes wrote:
> For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
>
> * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a
> USB stick. The stick will become /dev/sda and the harddrive becomes
>
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