[App_rpt-users] Trying to install from a USB drive

[Buddy Brannan]

Howdy,

Thanks, I'll give that a go. 
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I think I must be missing something important.
> 
> I need to move my install to a new computer, as the old crappy one it's on now is fix in to crap out. 
> 
> The machine that I have kicking around to use doesn't have a CDROM drive, but it will boot off USB. I verified this both by booting from a Chromium USB drive and also a live Archlinux installation. However, burning either Acid or Xipar to a USB drive seems not to work, giving me only a blank screen with a blinking cursor, and no boot prompt or very much else. 
> 
> From the Mac terminal, and even from the Linux terminal on the crappy computer,
> dd if=acid-somthing-or-other.iso of=/dev/disk1 (for the Mac, or /dev/sda for Linux)
> 
> The drive writes, it mounts, it has expected files on it, but it doesn't boot to anything except a blank screen.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> 
> 
> 
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