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On 16/07/2015 18:40, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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> I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb) |
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> drive. |
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> I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb |
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> storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the |
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> kernel is loaded. |
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> However after asking for the keymap (I just hit enter) |
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> it types "looking for the cdrom". There is no cdrom. |
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> It then tries to mount media /dev/sda[123] (which are dell and windows |
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> partitions). When this fails it announces "no bootable medium found" |
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> I tried adding the doscsi option, no change. |
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> What did I do wrong? |
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> thanks in advance, |
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> allan |
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> PS I did buy an external usb cdrom player and can dd the minimal cd to a |
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> blank media. However, I thought that I can install linux from a usb |
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> stick without a CD at all. |
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The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive |
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(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use |
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unetbootin to do the magic though. |
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Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic |
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incantation that lets dd do what you want :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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