Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mint Debian, hijack of "'Re: Debian Lenny..."

Yes. That is my experience too. I can't get Mandriva to work from
Unetbootin.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 8 February 2011 08:45, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:04:43AM -0000, dbneeley wrote:
> > I used unetbootin many times on 32-bit systems, but it totally failed a
> few months ago when I tried to use it to install a 64-bit Linux on this
> system.
> >
> > Thus, I recorded a CD of the same .iso image and had no trouble
> installing it.
> >
> > Whether this is something that would again beset me if I tried it I do
> not know.
> >
>
> Seems to depend upon distribution. I've had trouble using it with RH
> based iso files--but this is probably an anaconda (the RH installer)
> defect.
>
> In general, it seems to work quite well with Debian based distributions.
> Many others, (Arch and FreeBSD to think of two), now have images that
> can simply be directly copied to a USB, with the dd command.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Xander: Cavalry's here! Cavalry's a scared guy with a club, but
> it's here!
>
>
>

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