eee pt 2
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From: notbob on 23 Jan 2010 12:42 After a few false starts and some stupidity on my part, I finally get my usb flash drive loaded up with slack 13 by way of alienbob's great pkgs/scripts. Anyway, all looks good, the stick boots ok, slack loads, I get my empty hdd space configured for a / and swap partition and get them formated, etc. All goes perfectly until I get to "media source" in the setup. I naturally select slackware usb stick and hit OK. Nada! Zip, zero, goose egg! Basically, the whole shebang freezes up cold. I'm using a sandisk 8G cruzer which has an led that blinks slowly when connecting and xfering and the led slowly fades on/off when idle. When I hit ok on media source, the usb stick remains in what appears idle mode. At least nothing appears to be occuring. The screen does nothing, too. Hitting any keys, including alt-ctrl-del does nothing. I gotta turn the computer completely off to clear it. Does a usb install occur stealthily with no screen activity? Looks dead to me. It seems like the usb port goes to sleep and the media source action is not calling the stick, or...? Do I have a corrupted ..img on the USB (brand new) stick. I got positive readouts on it's creation. Or is the eee putting port on sleep? ...or? Do some usb flash drives work better than others? I'll be googling for solutions or possibilities, but any suggestions are appreciated. nb ....sooooo close! :\
From: Peter Chant on 23 Jan 2010 14:13 notbob wrote: > Does a usb install occur stealthily with no screen activity? Looks > dead to me. It seems like the usb port goes to sleep and the media > source action is not calling the stick, or...? Do I have a corrupted > .img on the USB (brand new) stick. I got positive readouts on it's > creation. Or is the eee putting port on sleep? ...or? Do some usb > flash drives work better than others? I'll be googling for solutions > or possibilities, but any suggestions are appreciated. iirc I think I just copied the slack dvd contents to a usb hard drive, created a mount point, mounted that and just pointed the installer to the slackware directory on the external driver when it asked for a source. -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk
From: notbob on 23 Jan 2010 15:00 On 2010-01-23, Peter Chant <peteRE(a)MpeteOzilla.Vco.ukE> wrote: > iirc I think I just copied the slack dvd contents to a usb hard drive, > created a mount point, mounted that and just pointed the installer to the > slackware directory on the external driver when it asked for a source. hmmm..... IOW, after loading os, then mount it to keep it available. I'll give it a shot. ;) nb
From: notbob on 23 Jan 2010 18:07 On 2010-01-23, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote: > hmmm..... IOW, after loading os, then mount it to keep it available. > I'll give it a shot. ;) Nope. I've tried several mounting options with no joy. All keep kicking me back to the choosesource/choosetarget/selectpkgs setup screen. I'll try re-creating the key. nb
From: Peter Chant on 23 Jan 2010 20:09
notbob wrote: > On 2010-01-23, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote: > >> hmmm..... IOW, after loading os, then mount it to keep it available. >> I'll give it a shot. ;) > > Nope. > > I've tried several mounting options with no joy. All keep kicking me > back to the choosesource/choosetarget/selectpkgs setup screen. I'll > try re-creating the key. To be honest I'm confused. Not having a dvd drive it was not trivial. However, it did not cause me sufficient hastle to make me remember how I did it - so it was not that difficult. I'm pretty sure I booted from a usb stick of some kind. -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |