On 10/7/19 7:10 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On 7/10/19 11:27 pm, pinnerite wrote:
For many years I have used bootable DVDs when needing to effect repairs
or modifications.
These days fewer machines have DVD drives but they do have USB sockets.
I have some new Sandisk USB 3.0 flash drives and have installed Knoppix
8.6 on one of them, first under Windows using a Universal USB installer
and next under Knoppix itself using its own utility.
However I cannot get either of my desktops or my netbook to boot from it.
My question is, are there any tests to indicate whether the install is
viable?
TIA
[Mageia Users: My reply went to the Mint group, which is the Reply-to.] (Forgot to change the Newsgroup: Field before.)
AHA! That's what happened to my reply, too. I'm putting a copy below...
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but...
When I want to create a bootable flash drive from an iso, which I do frequently when testing for Mageia, I use Mageia's Isodumper tool. It
will "dump" the iso to the usb device, and afterward it checks the drive
for verification before telling you the operation was successful.
It works equally well with non-Mageia isos. Of course, the iso itself
must be viable. Isodumper can't "fix" a faulty iso.
Until recently, Isodumper was available from the repositories as a
stand-alone application. However, the latest Mageia 7 update to drakconf
(AKA MCC) added it as one of the tools. Find it under "System/Writing
Iso Images on a USB device or formatting."
TJ
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