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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 10:17:03
Message-Id: 3330489.ts1ESD3RQf@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tuesday, 1 January 2019 13:28:22 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Tuesday, 1 January 2019 11:41:10 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote:
3 > > On mar. 1 janv. 10:29:11 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote:
4 > > > Yes, but first you have to loop-mount the .iso, which I can't do for
5 > > > some
6 > > > reason; I get Operation not permitted. I've tried the iso and the CD I
7 > > > burned from it, with the same result.
8 > >
9 > > app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86 has a useflag isohybrid (Pass downloaded
10 > > images through isohybrid in order to make it possible to copy them
11 > > directly to USB media and boot (requires sys-boot/syslinux at build
12 > > time).)
13 > >
14 > > Did you try that?
15 >
16 > I missed that - thanks. (Things are progressively harder to read these
17 > days.)
18 >
19 > It worked, too, and the BIOS found the USB stick and put it at the head of
20 > the list of bootable devices.
21 >
22 > I still can't loop-mount the iso though, either before or after running
23 > isohybrid. That's a problem for another day though; when the new SSD arrives
24 > for the Atom box I can set about building a new system, complete with email
25 > service (hah!).
26
27 I replied to this yesterday but my reply hasn't appeared here yet. Am I losing
28 mail?
29
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm Alarig Le Lay <alarig@××××××××××.fr>