Re: Live Build problems

["dave boland" <dboland9@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:38 -0600, "Richard Nelson" <unixabg@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:23 AM, dave boland <dboland9@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:44 -0600, "Richard Nelson" <unixabg@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM, dave boland <dboland9@fastmail.fm>
> >> wrote:
> >> > This afternoon I use the web tool to make a live build so I could get
> >> > When I booted the live CD the software started to complain about ata2
> >> > (error -5 and -16), and UTF not recommended for FAT.  Same results in
> >> > Safe Mode.  First question -- why was the hard drive being checked to
> >> > begin with? This is a livecd, not an install CD.  There is no ata2, so
> >> > the software (I hesitate to call it the installer because I was not
> >> > installing any software) got this really wrong.
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> >>
> >> So did it boot to kde?
> >>
> >>
> > No.  Even the command line was not usable.  It looked like it completely
> > aborted because there was no hard drive (which there is -- just not a
> > second one).  Are there any diagnostics I can try, or would I be smarter
> > to get some blank DVD's and use the already compiled KDE version?
> 
> Can you try a usb key since this is a hybrid-iso image?
> 
I will have to get one, but I don't see the value of doing it because I
know it is not a CD problem.  I'm also not sure if USB boot is supported
by the BIOS (will check tomorrow morning).

Dave,
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