[Novalug] Red Hat /Fedora distribution from thumb drive
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Thu Nov 17 12:24:05 EST 2011
You don't get proper mode/owner/groups from FAT. With only /boot, it's
tolerable, but still.
JIM
P.S. Please understand that any Hostility is directed towards the
Methods, not the People who suggest them.
P.P.S. I also believe it is one's Duty to violently oppose bonehead
ideas, especially when they don't seem to die off on their own (de)merits.
On 11/16/2011 11:57 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
> Being a little hostile aren't we?
> Sent from my Kindle Fire
>
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> *From:* James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3@Comcast.NET>
> *Sent:* Wed Nov 16 23:29:42 EST 2011
> *To:* "Don E. Groves, Jr." <dgrovesjr@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* NOVALUG <novalug@calypso.tux.org>, drwho@virtadpt.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Novalug] Red Hat /Fedora distribution from thumb drive
>
> What I meant is: syslinux is a FAT thing.
>
> Who wants FAT partitions...V or not?
>
> JIM
>
> On 11/16/2011 9:21 PM, Don E. Groves, Jr. wrote:
>> Why do you think that "syslinux"
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSLINUX> is a Windows thing?
>> For I personally have never seen "syslinux" listed as an M$-Window's
>> install option.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:29 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
>> <JECottrell3@comcast.net <mailto:JECottrell3@comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>> You still haven't answered my question....
>>
>> Why use syslinux instead of grub???
>>
>> Syslinux is a Windows thing.
>>
>> JIM
>>
>>
>> On 11/16/2011 9:54 AM, Miles D. Oliver wrote:
>>> Unetbootin creates its own menu screen and I found it cumbersome
>>> to try and use it as an install method to mess with the menu and
>>> config to try and make it appear as a default install for Red
>>> Hat and Fedora.
>>> This is why I shared how I've done it using syslinux to make a
>>> boot block and copying the contents of the isolinux directory to
>>> root and renaming islolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. It boots fine
>>> and I've done lots of installs this way. I used to burn DVDs
>>> but I'm finding now that with Fedora 'preupgrade' is working
>>> well to upgrade from several previous versions of Fedora on my
>>> laptop.
>>> I just built the USB and this did this with my laptop to upgrade
>>> to FC16 to confirm it still works but choosing the upgrade
>>> method went a little differently with FC16 than I remember from
>>> before when I have done it. It never read the rpms from the USB
>>> drive, it did the upgrade by pulling the files from the
>>> Internet. I'll have to try it in a new installation and see if
>>> it will use the files locally of the USB.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
>>> <shadowhunter@gmail.com <mailto:shadowhunter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> There's a utility called Unetbootin, that will provision a
>>> LiveUSB disk:
>>>
>>> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 17:03, jerry w <jerrywone@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jerrywone@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> > you had me until you said slackware ;-)
>>> >
>>> > Puppy has been some fun.
>>> > XOPup did nice things on OLPC XOs
>>> > for a bit the other day.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, The Doctor
>>> <drwho@virtadpt.net <mailto:drwho@virtadpt.net>> wrote:
>>> >>
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>>> >> On 11/13/2011 10:07 AM, John Place wrote:
>>> >> > One interesting distro Puppy Linux..
>>> http://puppylinux.org <http://puppylinux.org/>
>>> >>
>>> >> I'd also like to mention Porteus Linux (http://porteus.org/).
>>> >>
>>> >> The distro boots insanely fast, is small (about 250 MB),
>>> and has two
>>> >> full desktop environments (KDE v3.5 and LXDE). It's also
>>> binary
>>> >> compatible with Slackware v13.37.
>>> >>
>>> >> - --
>>> >> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
>>> >>
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>> Tag it's your turn now... ... ....
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