hi,
I am not even getting started here. This laptop is an ideal candidate for WattOS, it is of WinXP vintage but now runs Puppy and Lubuntu. I wanted to install WattOS r8 from a USB stick but the usual procedure seems not to work.
This is what I have tried, both from within sudo -i (ie effectively as root). And yes, I have done the obvious and checked the MD5 and tried more than one USB stick. And yes the stick is /dev/sdb1 (checked before the umount)
1. (assuming the iso is already hybrid)
umount /dev/sdb1
dd if=wattOS-R8-LXDE32.iso of=/dev/sdb1
2. (assuming it is not)
umount /dev/sdb1
cp wattOS-R8-LXDE32.iso wattOS-R8-LXDE32-HYBRID.iso
isohybrid wattOS-R8-LXDE32-HYBRID.iso
dd if=wattOS-R8-LXDE32.iso-HYBRID of=/dev/sdb1
In both cases the BIOS says "missing Operating System" when I select the option to boot from USB. Boot from USB has worked before. I can understand the Lubuntu isohybrid command failing to do the right thing, because the kernel is in a different place on a Debian install disk as compared to a Ubuntu one, but what is the right comment to use, please?
Can I mount the iso and use a command line utility from the iso to correctly write it to USB?
Any other, advice, please, that does not involve using Windo$e to create the USB stick from the ISO, and that does not involve a physical CDROM, neither of which this laptop has any more
best regards,
River~~
