Re: Installation failed - and failed again...
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Installation failed - and failed again...
> To: "Brian" <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 11:29 AM
> On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 19:56:43 -0500, Mark Filipak
> wrote:
>
>
> The reason I
> switched the target from an 8-GB USB flash drive to a USB
> hard drive is that someone said I couldn't install to a USB
> flash drive because of the flash structures and that I
> should switch to a hard drive because the MBR will be easier
> to deal with. I thought that suggestion was bogus, but I
> went along with it because I had a spare USB hard drive and
> because I wanted to move past that roadblock, even if
> bogus.
>
--cut--
>
> when that didn't work, I switched the target to the USB hard
> drive as suggested by someone.
>
>
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I think that suggestion started here ;) . . .
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Installation failed
> To: "Go Linux" <golinux@yahoo.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:42 PM
> On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote:
> > --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb drive
> or nothing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard
> drive?
>
>
>
> That would be nice, but that would be on USB also...
>
>
>
The problem is not with USB. The problem is flash vs hard drive. AFAIK you CAN install grub2 to a hard drive and boot from it.
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