--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Installation failed - and failed again... > To: "Brian" <a...@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. > > --------------------------- I think that suggestion started here ;) . . . --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Installation failed > To: "Go Linux" <goli...@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.li...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362338922.41883.yahoomailclas...@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
