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| Len-live | astraljava: are you aware of a maximum size of usb stick that can be used to put an iso image on? | 06:40 |
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| Len-live | I had been using an 8G, but today tried a 16G. It booted for a bit then fell back to busybox. | 06:41 |
| Len-live | The 8G still worked fine with the same image. | 06:41 |
| Len-live | I was able to install US on the 16G memstick though. I think this is probably better than live with persistence. | 06:42 |
| Len-live | Anyway, I repartitioned the 16G to 3G and 13G and was able to boot live from the 3G partition. | 06:43 |
| Len-live | I guess when it looks for a DVD/CD it checks all drives under a certain size. | 06:44 |
| astraljava | len: I don't know of such limitations, but you could check your motherboard manufacturer, or the BIOS provider for that model. It wouldn't _totally_ surprised me if there were some. | 10:56 |
| ailo | I usually use a 4GB sized usb stick. Don't think the size matters that much. More to do with how large the image is | 11:07 |
| ailo | I would think 2 GB should work | 11:07 |
| ailo | But, I've heard some models don't work well to boot with | 11:07 |
| ailo | I have no idea why | 11:07 |
| astraljava | Yeah. | 11:08 |
| len | I think it is the code that looks for the "cd". It boots fine, but when it looks for the software to load it can't find it. | 15:02 |
| len | Perhaps I will try some different sizes to find out where the max is... but it really isn't that important. | 15:04 |
| len | It works with 8G which is bigger than a real DVD. | 15:06 |
| len | I think installing to a USB device is great for testing. I can leave my hard drive alone. | 15:07 |
| ailo | len: Ah, you're installing onto the usb stick | 15:08 |
| len | The drive is limited to USB2 speeds (in my case) but this doesn't seem to have been an issue | 15:08 |
| ailo | It should only work on the PC you install with as far as I know | 15:09 |
| len | I have been installing on to a 40G USB drive. | 15:09 |
| len | I havn't tried running the installed drive on a different machine... my only thought was to have a second drive for test installs | 15:09 |
| ailo | I guess 4 GB is probably minimum | 15:10 |
| ailo | But, maybe a little too small for a standard installation? | 15:10 |
| len | I just noticed that usb sticks are getting ever bigger and sooner or later someone is going to print the iso to a 64G usb stick and complain it doesn't work... | 15:11 |
| ailo | Why should it not work? | 15:11 |
| len | I used a 16G to install to That worked fine and left 9G of space free. | 15:12 |
| len | Well my 16G din't work... | 15:12 |
| ailo | You weren't able to create a live usb that was 16GB? | 15:12 |
| len | It did work when I shrunk the partition I was putting the iso on though. | 15:12 |
| ailo | I've made live usb's with a 16GB stick before | 15:13 |
| len | That is correct. It booted but then couldn't find the "cd" to load from. | 15:13 |
| ailo | Probably needs a little more investigation to figure out what the problem really is | 15:13 |
| len | Maybe I will try a again. Gotta go to work now though. | 15:14 |
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| Len_live | ailo: you are right. 16G works fine. I wonder if my memstick came with no partitions and was formated like a floppy. | 22:01 |
| Len_live | When I formated this one it was sdd1... I am thinking before it was sdd. | 22:03 |
| Len_live | Only one way to find out. Though it shouldn't make a difference.... if I can mount it and read/write on it... it should work. | 22:05 |
| Len_live | I'll try it. | 22:05 |
| len | That was not it. The iso installer added a partition and reformatted. | 22:52 |
| len-live | Umm, someone has been playing with ubiquity... or maybe a theme. Ubiquity background is black... text too. | 23:42 |
| len-live | The other apps seem ok | 23:45 |
| len-live | So far, if I hover over a link it goes black on gray, but any other text is invisible. | 23:50 |
| len-live | The slide show looks ok, but on slide change it now has black bands flashing through it. | 23:54 |
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