Re: [LINUX_Newbies] TEST for 64-bit

I followed the instructions - ALL of them, from
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/Guide. Including the mounting and
copying bit.
On 04/27/2016 06:40 PM, Dan aa0qc@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Do you know that you have to extract the iso file onto the USB stick? The iso file itself will not boot the computer. The iso file is sort of like a zip file and has to be extracted. I used a app called UNetbootin; there are other apps to do this.
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> Also, the bios (or whatever it is called) has to be adjusted such that the computer will boot from the USB stick before the hard drive.
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> Two little things I did not know when I started with Linux.
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> Dan
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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1355@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Is there a way to boot an iso image directly off the hard drive? The
> USB stick didn't boot, and then I found that the image didn't verify
> correctly. I REALLY REALLY need to get this done soon. My old computer
> might die any day. My backup script executes every night at midnight.
> And every night at 12:15 I'm copying the new backup files to a USB stick
> so that I won't lose them if this computer powers down and I can't get
> it back on again. What advantages does 64bit software provide that
> 32bit doesn't?
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