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#1 2019-04-03 22:53:54

SunTzuTech
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USB install

So I've been playing with the 686-PAE 32-bit live install, and finally stuck a drive on the system (SATA port appears not to work, so stuck with IDE).

I've been using the USB Live and that boots relatively quickly.  However, everytime I tried to check for the CD, it hit the HD but didn't seem to see the USB image.

I've punted and put it on a DVD and booted from USB Live and installed from a USB DVD player.

Did I miss something?

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#2 2019-04-03 23:05:02

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Re: USB install

If you've installed BL successfully, well, that's the goal, isn't it?

As far as your USB attempts, the most common issue is people trying to use a Windows GUI like Unetbootin instead of using a terminal and the cp command. The other common issue is BIOS settings on a Windows computer. Without more info on how you tried to install BL and what your hardware is, we really have no way of knowing what went wrong.


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#3 2019-04-03 23:57:15

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Re: USB install

USB Key was installed by rufus.

The system is an old Asrock K7VTA Pro with an Athlon XP 2600 and an Radeon HD 2600Pro. 
Dual IDE + SATA1 + USB2.0 + 100Mb net.  1 AGP and 5 PCI slots. 

I'm not sure what's up with the SATA ports, they may be dead.  The bios nor the OS seems to see any disks (I've tried several, 1 HD and 1 SSD).  The disks were visible on another Windows system, and used the same cables..  It is SATA-1 and I'm thinking there could be a compatibility problem, despite standards saying there shouldn't be.  They could also be dead. The OS sees the port, but nothing responds as it times out.  (via_sata via lspci -vvv)

I got a cheap PCI SATA card coming in and will try installing to a small SSD next week, as I'm dumping all spinning rust, except 10k drives, even for old boxes.  I'm amazed at how well a AMD X4 965 runs off an SSD.

Anyway, so I told the Bios to boot off the USB key, and then the bios recognized the 120GB IDE disk I put on it.  I went a couple rounds with the GUI to try and see the USB key, but I think that it has a different name than from booting from DVD, and it did spin the IDE disk when it looked for the DVD media.  I shell'd out to root and could see the Live partition.  But the installer couldn't find it. Tried the expert GUI installer, and all that did was add some options I wasn't using and I bounced off the looking for DVD media issue.

Burned a DVD and called it a day.

Hoping the extra info saves someone else from burning $0.08 worth of DVD.. :-)

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#4 2019-04-04 00:36:09

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Re: USB install

SunTzuTech wrote:

USB Key was installed by rufus.

Rufus has worked for people if they choose "dd style" or maybe "ISO style", but other people have reported issues. On Windows, damo has suggested win32diskimager in the past. There are several threads discussing options, here is one with several suggestions...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2865


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#5 2019-04-04 00:37:38

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Re: USB install

Isn't Etcher available for Windows? 


After a quick Google search....yes it is

Etcher is a nice an easy tool to use.


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#6 2019-04-04 01:12:07

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Re: USB install

hhh wrote:
SunTzuTech wrote:

USB Key was installed by rufus.

Rufus has worked for people if they choose "dd style" or maybe "ISO style", but other people have reported issues. On Windows, damo has suggested win32diskimager in the past. There are several threads discussing options, here is one with several suggestions...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2865

I had burned the USB key in ISO mode.

I tried rufus in DD mode, and it came up, saw the image, and even configured my crappy WEP capable USB wifi on my other Athlon XP box.

Weird that live doesn't do the wifi like that.

Thanks for the suggestion.   Will make rebuilds easier.

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#7 2019-04-04 02:20:56

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Re: USB install

Dobbie03 wrote:

Isn't Etcher available for Windows? 


After a quick Google search....yes it is

Etcher is a nice an easy tool to use.

It's one of the tools mentioned in the thread I linked. smile


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#8 2019-04-04 02:24:00

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Re: USB install

hhh wrote:
Dobbie03 wrote:

Isn't Etcher available for Windows? 


After a quick Google search....yes it is

Etcher is a nice an easy tool to use.

It's one of the tools mentioned in the thread I linked. smile

Excellent smile We are on the same page then big_smile


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#9 2019-04-04 05:31:08

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Re: USB install

Dobbie03 wrote:

Etcher is a nice an easy tool to use.

...and bloated beyond compare.

i once had to create a bootable SDcard, and the only computer that had a slot for it was a very old netbook, and no etcher available for that!
thing is, the distro people (not BL) phrased their installation instructions in a way that it sounded like all this must be done with etcher - took me a while to figure out that it's just a giant dd frontend sad

debian wiki recommends the previously mentioned win32diskimager for windows.

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#10 2019-04-04 06:04:02

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Re: USB install

ohnonot wrote:

...and bloated beyond compare.

Yes it is, I was looking at it from a newbies point of view big_smile


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