similar to: Installing on USB Flash Drive

Well, now that I''ve figured out that network booting XCP is not really going to be feasible, I''m moving on to my next option: flash media installation. The systems that I purchased have SDHC slots on them, so I figured I''d attempt to install XCP to one of these cards. I had already read that there''s a minimum disk size in the installer (apparently 12 GB in

How well suited is btrfs to low-end and high-end FLASH devices? Paraphrasing from a thread elsewhere: FLASH can be categorised into two classes, which have extremely different characteristics: (a) the low-end (USB, SDHC, CF, cheap ATA SSD); and (b) the high-end (SAS, PCIe, NAS, expensive ATA SSD). My own experience is that the low end (a) can have erase blocks as large as 4MBytes or more

>From the little I have heard about control systems for cars, which was some years ago, they were blockhead proprietary. The analogy would only work if computing was customarily blackbox technology, which it isn't. I'd be surprised if there were any branded flash drives that contained less than their advertised amount of storage. That leaves the question of what is going on under the

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:56:35PM +0100, Mark Ballard wrote: > I think this is really an attempt at user feedback, rather than user > discussion. But there's no such thing as a user-feedback mail list. > > Nevertheless, others may find this pertinent: why doesn't mke2fs > handle USB's competently? And if it does, why doesn't it reassure me > so? And how can I

I recently acquired a Fujitsu Lifebook 1610. Unfortunately, the machine was missing a lot of the stuff that would've come with it brand new, mainly the usb cdrom drive. Currently, I'm running Fedora on it, and I installed it using a usb flash drive with the help of a program called unetbootin(Probably not spelled right). to load the ISO onto the USB drive. I've successfully used

I think this is really an attempt at user feedback, rather than user discussion. But there's no such thing as a user-feedback mail list. Nevertheless, others may find this pertinent: why doesn't mke2fs handle USB's competently? And if it does, why doesn't it reassure me so? And how can I handle a linux-formatted USB flash drive in the absence of my system giving me any guidance?

Hello everyone: I am kind of puzzled in writing spec on view partials. I can not find much information about the "should have_tag" syntax in Rspec. Can rspec test a particular attribute of a tag (e.g. input tag)? Let me put an example here: #../view/group/_index <div id="test"> <input type="button" value="update" onclick="update()"

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:56:17AM +0100, Mark Ballard wrote: > > This is incredible, Mr Sandeen. You mean USB flash manufacturers > (what's their body - the USB Implementer's Forum?) have simply not > provided a means for software to query the underlying hardware in a > USB flash? Have software producers asked them for this? No, they haven't. And yes we have, since

Hi All, First post and hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction for this problem. I did a bit of googling and found some hints but nothing concrete. We are using Syslinux and a FAT32 USB thumb drive (single partition) to boot a customized Debian OS which works very well with newer motherboards. However we have a few older Dell machines that simply hangs when trying to boot

A quick, and probably a silly few questions regarding Wine & ARM support. In a few months time, a new hand held created by a open source community is going to be released. More specificity Pandora: http://openpandora.org/ Its going to run with the following specs: * ARM? Cortex?-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux * 430-MHz TMS320C64x+? DSP Core * PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D

Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't > have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until > relatively recently. > > >>> > > They didn't work in 98 first edition, nor in NT4 or Win2000 - again, from >>> > > memory,

> syslinux at zytor.com: > > I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) > and Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS > installed. I would like to put Debian on them. > > > I have downloaded: > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso > > > When

Hello everyone: I am quit new to View test using rspec. I want to write spec for a partial, which is rendered by a controller. However, the controller does not pass data to the partial using instance variables, it uses symbol variable instead. I read the example of view spec provided in the website. But the example is using instance variable. So I am looking for a way of assigning my test data

Agh. This is great to have some of this clarified, Ted. It does unfortunately reinorce my cynicism. But it also fills my heart. That is, though it might be bad news to hear that I have most likely bought a piece of crap, and that there's no way I can really tell what's inside the cover unless either I do some kind of low-level alchemy of a kind that mere users would normally be well

Hi: I am a rspec beginner. I have scratched my head for the whole afternoon, trying to figure out a way of writing render expectation in controller spec. However, I failed. It kept telling me that the ''expect_render'' was an undefined method. I have installed rspec 1.0.8 and rspec_on_rails as well. Below is the controller to be tested. Controller def index pre

> > Both sticks show very unusual factors for heads and sectors > > which are hardly intentional. If BIOS gets confused like fdisk, > > then the failure to find files is quite plausible. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Could you please exercise what is described for Linux in > >

syslinux at zytor.com: I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) and Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS installed. I would like to put Debian on them. I have downloaded: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso When I put debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso on a CD-R, it boots correctly.

I all, I was thinking about installing centos on a usb flash drive. Perhaps a 4GIG. I dont need X or anything on this drive so installing should fit just fine. Are there boot issues with these flash drives? I'll be using a newer motherboard so the motherboard should be able to boot USB. Does this work? Have others done anything with flash drives? I am wanting this flash drive to be the

Hi, Does anyone know of a good guide to installing distros to usb flash drives ....? I read this one but its making much sense http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/86 Do I need to change drives in this manner for it to work ? Dave T.

I am attempting to install Gentoo on my cdless machine using the thumbdrive as a boot device. The motherboard is an Intel D815EEA, and is the latest firmware revision (at least on the BIOS). I believe I have done everything right, but it tells me I have unknown keywords in my syslinux.cfg and corrupt kernel images. The steps I have followed are thus: 1) Starting with a 4GB flash device,