Re: Putting It All On a Stick
Sorry, I missed that question. I have not put it on a stick as yet,
not even the (relatively) small DVD image. I tried using ISO2USB but
couldn't get the thing to boot. I don't know if it was because my
thumb drive wouldn't cooperate, or just what, but I definitely did
make it work with ISO2USB and another 4GB image of a Windows installer
that worked just peachy. The USB thumb drive idea was just something I
thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry it
around and use on various hardwares I encounter on a regular basis in
my travels as the itinerant accessible computing guy. I can install
Windows, and now at least two Linux distros accessibly, meaning
"without third party assistance."
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:51:32 +0000, you wrote:
>On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:26:10 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
>If you are experimenting I would choose Manual partitioning and go for a
>single 10/20 GB partition. You are not exactly installing very much and
>that is plenty.
>
>A repeat question: how did you get the ISO on a USB stick? (Assuming
>this is what you did).
>
>
>> I chose the partition scheme offering separate /, /home, /var and /tmp
>> partitions. I would have preferred to put /home on a different
>> physical drive only because everything else will be living on an SSD
>> and I would prefer to keep the writes to that disk at a minimum. I
>> have an extra rotating disk of size 250GB I could easily use for
>> /home, and I suppose I could eventually move /home to that drive, but
>> for now, all of this is purely experimental and learning, so anything
>> I do that's wrong or inefficient can easily be redone in a matter of
>> minutes.
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:13:26 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 12:49:25 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote
>> >
>> >As a matter of interest, how did you partition the disk? What
>> >partitioning scheme did you use?
>> >
>> >Also, you might have, I think, written the DVD-1 ISO image to a USB
>> >stick from within Windows. How did you do it?
>> >
>> >I went through the speech synthesis install using the visual prompts
>> >and, when it came to the task selection stage (install
>> >additional software), chose "8 9 11". There was no problem with this.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Frankly, neither can I, and I also can't see why the "install
>> >> additional software" procedure in Step 14 would fail, but it did, and
>> >> there we are. I'll try DVD 1 again now. At least I won't have to go
>> >> through the disk partitioning business again. That part is all done.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:30 +0000, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could.
>> >> >
>> >> >"Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu.
>> >> >
>> >> >The only major difference between DVD-1 and the netinst ISO is the first
>> >> >gets packages from the DVD (if there is no mirror) whereas the second
>> >> >will get some of them from the net (a mirror is needed). I cannot see
>> >> >why using a netinst ISO is any better than DVD-1.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
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