Bootable CD ...

Sun Aug 4 17:07:04 MST 2019

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 <bob.elzer at gmail.com> 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 <michael at butash.net> 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 <wheelie207 at ownmail.net>
>> 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 <wheelie207 at ownmail.net>
>>> 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 at 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 at 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 <mhgraham at crow202.org>
>>> 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. Reply with your snail-mail address
>>> if you
>>> >> >>> still need help.
>>> >> >>>
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