19.04 Live
Mike Marchywka
marchywka at hotmail.com
Tue May 7 00:59:20 UTC 2019
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:55:03AM +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 01 May 2019 at 22:10, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> Re: 19.04 Live (at least in part)
>
> >I got started with 'Beaver using the startup CD creator on IIRC Ubuntu 11
> >which was not guaranteed to work and sure enough it failed on the old
> >emachines but I finally got syslinux to work after hacking up the iso. The
> >Ubuntu 16 startup creator works fine iwht 'Beavver ISO on the Dell UEFI have
> >not tested on emachines bios. However, AFAICT the stuff is all on an ISO file
> >system which is not read-write and I'd like to avoid that as I did with the
> >syslinux version.
>
> Having tested (and still testing) with
> LinuxLive2.9.4
> Rufus-2.9
> Rufus-3.4
> USB-Installer-1.9.8.6
> USB-Installer-1.9.8.7
> Win32DiskImager-0.9.5
> Win32DiskImager-1.0.0
> YUMI-2.0.6.5
> And native "Create Startup Media" in Ubuntu 16.04 & 18.04
>
> I find that the "best" option changes for each release, it does help that I
> have Windowz, Ubuntu, PuppyLinux & Elementry boxes to test with.
>
> Your definition of "Best" choice may very depending on what you want/need, I
> have managed to get a good outcome with all above except Yumi, no version of
> that has made a bootable USB with any Ubuntu (or other iso for that matter)
> version, it always hangs at a BusyBox prompt.
I finally just put grub on the ssd ( usb 3 ) and rebooted and it dropped
into the grub menu so I think I can get that to work with
my prior extracted Beaver files that worked with syslinux.
I was reluctant to do that as grub-install cleverly reverts
to the hard disk if anything is wrong in the command line
and sure enough it did that but I did not sudo it. IS there
any reason for this or can I make my own grub-install that will not
even open the HD under any circumstances?
When the verbose mode as non-root did not mention the hd
I sudo'ed and it seems ok.
The UUID thing is nice though as it should make it harder to get the
disks mixed up later.
fwiw, my imap downloader appears to more or less work. I never found
one that anyone liked and I could interface to libetpan pretty easily.
Is there an easy way to get neomutt to download 1000's of messages?
I just downloaded into mbox format and verified neomutt could read
the thing but basically I just want to archive so I am not
stuck with any particular email provider. It seems to work with
hotmail,yahoo, and gmail.
It was probably a big diversion writing a mail downloader as
something should exist or it could be done in neomutt but
I did verify my new file layout and dev tools work :)
>
> USB-Installer was my goto installer for a long time because it just worked,
> gave a working option to add persistent storage, but at some point around
> 1.9.6.x the persistant option stopped working (you could add it but then it
> would not boot), later versions still have value as they support a large amount
> of iso's
>
> Rufus has always worked well but has no Persistant option
>
> LinuxLive (a bit flashy) but until the latest Ubuntu (19.04) has worked well
> giving a reliable persistant option, but has not seen an update for a few years
> (2015 iirc) that may explain why I cant get it to make a bootable persistant
> USB
>
> Create Startup Media (native) has always worked well but again has no
> persistant option (TTBOMK) it has worked forward (14.04 will make a 16.04 or
> 18.04 USB), I have even managed a few non-Ubuntu USB's with it
>
> >I just thought if there was a link to documentation I could start from
> >scratch, copy everything to a hand partitioned SSD and go with that.
>
> No need, making a good working bootable USB is not hard.
>
> If you want a portable (non-live) install of Ubuntu it is possible to install
> to an external USB, but that requires a bit of fiddling [1] if you want to boot
> from "ANY" machine, it works very well, I carry a working 16.04.6 with all the
> tools you never knew you needed "until you do"
>
> The only downside(s) to that are USB speeds across different boxes, also I
> would have to fiddle more if I wished to but it on a number of MAC boxes, it
> can be done (I have done it for a client) but as I don't have a MAC to test
> each time and don't "need" it I just keep the instructions (and a few *.sh
> scripts to help)
>
> [1] the external USB HD will work fine (maybe slowly) on the machine you
> installed it from, but you will need to add the grub boot loader to it, I know
> it should be there if you followed the directions on many AskUbuntu threads,
> but IME, you need to do it yourself to make it portable
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
--
mike marchywka
306 charles cox
canton GA 30115
USA, Earth
marchywka at hotmail.com
404-788-1216
ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list