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. 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. 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. 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. -mb On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 4:44 PM Bob Elzer wrote: > wouldn't it be easier to create a bootable usb drive using unetbootin? > > https://unetbootin.github.io/ > > > > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 4:24 PM Michael Butash wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server >> https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/ >> >> -mb >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:43 PM Harold Hartley >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 15:31, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: >>> >>> I've never installed _anything_ over the network. >>> >>> Can you give me a solid tutorial to follow? >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:44 AM Harold Hartley >>> wrote: >>> > __ >>> > It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios. >>> > >>> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 11:41, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: >>> >> The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up. >>> >> >>> >> The Laptop was built in 2009 by Puget Systems ( >>> https://www.pugetsystems.com/), 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. >>> >> >>> >> Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of >>> trying Manjaro on it. >>> >> >>> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson < >>> guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> > 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? >>> >> > >>> >> > These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own >>> drives to burn a disc for you. >>> >> > >>> >> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J < >>> alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote: >>> >> >> I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> 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? >>> >> >> >>> >> >> 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. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> So now I'm really confused. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Thanks, >>> >> >> Alexander >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Sent from my Galaxy S10+ >>> >> >> >>> >> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: >>> >> >>> > Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD? >>> >> >>> > I don't have a burner, or discs. So I'm asking for help! >>> >> >>> > Can someone burn CentOS7 minimal for me? >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> Did you get a CD from Installfest? If not, I have a DVD+-RW and a >>> CD-R >>> >> >>> blank somewhere around here. 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