well that didn't work:( how about dd the live disk to a pendrive? On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Michael wrote: > okay.... I think it is a hardware issue. I plug the external drive into my > linux box and it does not see the drive. I plug it in correctly into thw > windows 10 box and it sees itso.... everythhing is working so far. I just > need to burn mint onto a USB stick and everything should be good. > Apparently the usb will burn from windows but I'll find out when everything > is done. Or else perhaps the old hardware on my linux box has something to > do with it..... but that box is only 6 years old! > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> On 2016-10-24 08:58, Carruth, Rusty wrote: >> >>> NOTE! WARNING! BEWARE!!! DD will almost certainly copy the UUID from >>> the source partition to the destination partition! I do NOT know what >>> havoc will result when linux looks for that UUID and finds 2…. (I’d >>> guess it takes the first one it finds >>> >> >> Yes, mount goes through all the block devices probably starting with the >> first SCSI disk. If it's looking for a UUID and finds it on /dev/sda3, >> that's the one it'll use, even if the same UUID is on /dev/sdb1 . I >> think. IIRC, the label detection code in mount did that the last time I >> looked at it. >> >> (I know about the UUID copy because I do that here at work all the >>> time. In my case, it’s a feature. In your case, it’s a bug) >>> >> >> If you know you want to have the same UUID on 2 filesystems, you can use >> "dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdNN | grep UUID" , then pass the big hex string to the >> -U option of mkfs when you're making the new filesystem. Or the -U option >> of tune2fs if you've already done mkfs and copied stuff. >> >> IMHO, using filesystem labels is preferable to using UUIDs in /etc/fstab >> . Labels can be made short and meaningful to humans, while UUIDs really >> can't. (OK, -U feedface-dead-beef-0000-123456789abc works, but is >> silly.) Distros probably go the UUID route because it's generally easy to >> assume that UUIDs are unique, while filesystem labels may not be. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: