[GLLUG] Bootable USB Stick

[Patrick Goupell]

There is a program called Plop boot manager 
(https://www.plop.at/en/home.html).

If you have not heard of it perhaps it might work .

Patrick



On 11/07/2015 10:47 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 11:15 AM, Antonio Gurgel wrote:
>> You have two Linux-only options, from what I see on ArchWiki:
>> 1 Use GNOME:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media#Using_GNOME_Disk_Utility 
>>
>> 2 Manually hack at it with GRUB:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive#Using_GRUB_and_loopback_devices 
>>
>
> I still haven't created a bootable flash drive, but not for want of 
> trying.  I tried unetbootin on another distro, with the same results.  
> I did finally figure out my mistake in booting the install .iso file 
> using a loopback device, but the installation fails.  Or rather, seems 
> to do nothing after getting all the information it needs from me.  I 
> ran in to a similar problem trying to install another distro by 
> booting the live install CD's .iso file, so maybe that's inherent in 
> the way they're set up.
>
> The GRUB & loopback device method mentioned above looks like it might 
> work, but I've thought that before.  I think I'll just see if the 
> drive fits in my similar ThinkPad and install it from there.  Maybe 
> I'll just swap the drives permanently, as the other one is larger.  
> The screen doesn't work properly on that one, which is why I don't use 
> it for anything other than playing DVDs to watch on a TV.
>
> Thanks for all your suggestions.