On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:21:20AM -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
I have an interesting phenomenon for install (failure) off a usbkey for F11
that I would like to understand.
I used the method at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#How_to_Make...
(which I wrote), to try and install F11 on a Samsung NC10 netbook. The
livecd-iso-to-disk command was executed on a machine running up to date F11
to create the bootable key.
I've run into trouble with that method--it seems as if it might be
dated, though I haven't really tested it enough to have an intelligent
opinion, because...
I then used unetbootin to install the boot.iso file onto the same key, and
the NC10 immediately booted to the install just fine.
Like you, I found that unetbootin is an easier method if one has
a GUI running, and seems to have a higher success rate. I'm sure there
are logical reasons, and the downside is that it requires X to be
running. (Also, at least in the earlier versions, one had to do a few
little tricks to get it working on a Fedora system, though they were
trivial.)
I found this weird and although I have managed to do the install now I
wondered if there was a rational explanation why the Fedora method failed
but the unetbootin method worked in this case? Has anyone else experienced
this?
See above. :) I've just found it to be a great time saver. I think
Fedora has a similar GUI tool as well, which I haven't used in awhile.
This is just one of those cases where I found something that worked
without much effort and I haven't bothered to look very hard at
alternatives.
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