<div dir="ltr">I have had almost nothing but issues booting various distro on usb drives, why I still keep a trusty usb cdrom and floppy around. It's the only great equalizer.<div><br></div><div>Last time I tried unetbootin, it wouldn't write the disk label properly on the usb drive to boot arch linux on weirdly, as just how it tends to want to boot. I just burned the damn thing to a cdrom, it worked. I still do this with arch installs.</div><div><br></div><div>My stack of 100 dvd's I purchased 20 years ago will probably disintegrate soon before I use them all, but so far hooray for legacy technology to keep it real.</div><div><br></div><div>Booting clonezilla in a virtualbox vm is pretty painless/quick. Download image, launch vm to boot off iso, bridge it to a laptop port, and crossover ethernet cable to whatever he wants to image or boot an install cd from, set bios on remote to pxe boot. I had a clonezilla server vm on my laptop with multiple distro boot iso's loaded like 10 years ago, I just didn't have need to use it much to keep the space it needed and updating it.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 4:44 PM Bob Elzer <<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">wouldn't it be easier to create a bootable usb drive using unetbootin?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://unetbootin.github.io/" target="_blank">https://unetbootin.github.io/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 4:24 PM Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'd check out clonezilla bootable images, I've booted a server on a vm and started imaging other vms with it before, it's pretty cool. Using the lite-server might add a quickie option to get it booted over the network. Note: this puts a dhcp on your network, which will probably conflict with your lan router, so use a crossover cable if possible or a separate switch/vlan.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server</a><br></div><div><a href="https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:43 PM Harold Hartley <<a href="mailto:wheelie207@ownmail.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wheelie207@ownmail.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div style="font-family:Arial">Download an image for installing over network from whatever distro you want to use. Then burn it to cd and install on computer and it will run and connect to the the distro site and will start to install the files.</div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div>On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 15:31, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="gmail-m_5264076808581542555m_8894060889632460755gmail-m_-360979163309169268qt"><div style="font-family:Arial">I've never installed _anything_ over the network.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">Can you give me a solid tutorial to follow?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:44 AM Harold Hartley <<a href="mailto:wheelie207@ownmail.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wheelie207@ownmail.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">> __<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">> It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 11:41, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> The Laptop was built in 2009 by Puget Systems (<a href="https://www.pugetsystems.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pugetsystems.com/</a>), so yes, the hardware is old, but I highly doubt it's "Too Old" for Linux. I found another USB SSD I bought the same time as the laptop, so I'm going to try and format that and see if it works as a bootable device.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of trying Manjaro on it.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson <<a href="mailto:guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> > Does it have the ability to boot from network? Didn't you say that the laptop has an internal DVD/CD drive? Could your install media need to be locked in some way after the burn is complete? Is the ISO too new to work with old hard ware?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> > <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> > These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own drives to burn a disc for you. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> > <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J <<a href="mailto:alexander@snyderfamily.co" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">alexander@snyderfamily.co</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> After they left, I went hunting in the garage and found an old DVD-R (USB). I went to Best Buyand got a few blank DVDs. So, it won't read from a 2019 USB-SSD, but it'll boot from a ~2015 USB-DVD drive?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> I can get into the CentOS 7 setup but it fails to verify the media, and refuses to continue. When I skip verify, it still fails by saying the media is not fit for install.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> So now I'm really confused.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> Thanks, <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> Alexander<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> Sent from my Galaxy S10+<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham <<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >>> On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >>> > Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">>> >>> > I don't have a burner, or discs. 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