That sounds like a good idea, esp. if based on experience. There's at least one Puppy disk lying around here somewhere.
Mark
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:
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> Perhaps you could browse this USB flash drive from Puppy Linux Live CD to do your housekeeping? I had good luck a number of times on all types of drives and flavors of OS or file systems so far.
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> Good luck,
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> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Cannot boot USB-based OS
> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 11:10 AM
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, J <dreadpiratejeff@> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 15:23, Darksyde <m_alexander61@> wrote:
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> > > Â I have Mint 7, Gloria, on a persistent USB drive and cannot boot it. Â All goes well, even to the "From freedom came elegance" screen with the status bar showing progress.
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> > > Â Then it hits a snag and a list of error messages come up, all with "no available space" or "no space remaining", something like that, and an "Error 28". Â "Properties" of the
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> > > Â FWIW, there's nothing on this drive that I can't live without, as I recall, but the solution may come in handy in future when I plan to use external drives more for an extra layer
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> Lessee...I purchased the drive (from OSDisc I believe) and it came preloaded with "Gloria" and configured to be persistent. "Properties" shows that it has 1 Gig free of the 3.7 total. All apps were installed using either the standard repositories or "apt-get install". It is most definitely possible that I overloaded it, though, as mentioned, it supposedly has 1 Gig free. I'm with you on that one, no matter what "Properties" shows, so I figure there's got to be a way to get in there and do some house-cleaning via the terminal. I have unmounted it and tried again with no luck, though I never tried physically removing and replacing it as I didn't think that would make any difference.
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