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wattOS R9 / Re: Trouble creating a live USB

« on: May 19, 2016, 11:14:58 PM »

You guys have really turned me on to i3. I liked it so much using WattOS in a virtual machine that I installed it in Elementary OS, and now I'm using it there. Getting better battery life. I'll be watching for R10!

wattOS R9 / Re: Trouble creating a live USB

« on: May 15, 2016, 06:54:08 PM »

Thanks for the responses, guys. I'd tried what is recommended here already, so no luck on those suggestions.

Yes, my motherboard does have UEFI. I thought 14.04, on which WattOS is based, worked with UEFI. Is that not the case? It's been a while since I've tried a distro that didn't work with UEFI, and I don't know enough to try to make it work if it isn't already capable of doing so. I did run WattOS in VMWare, and I really like the distro. If I can't get this version to work, I'll check again on R10.

Thanks again!

wattOS R9 / Trouble creating a live USB

« on: May 13, 2016, 09:29:04 PM »

I have WattOS R9 Microwatt, 64-bit, and I'm trying to boot a live USB on a Toshiba Satellite.

When I put in the live USB, the light on the USB stick comes on, because the boot order is set to look for the USB first, but instead of booting the live USB it goes straight to my normal Grub menu (Elementary OS and Windows 10). I've tried two different USB sticks, one of which I've used to create live USBs for other distros and never had a problem. I also tried creating the live USB in both Unetbootin and Universal USB Installer (choosing WattOS as the distro in the latter during creation of the USB).

I've run out of ideas as to what to try. Laptop doesn't have an optical drive. I could check out the distro in VMWare, but if I like it and want to install I'm not sure how to get around the USB issue. Thoughts?

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