For those of you following my continuing story ...... My HP 6730b Win7
Laptop (that I had installed MGA6 on) has died, sort of, before I got
around to installing MGA9 onto it.
However .... about six months ago, I purchased a New HP Win 11 Desktop computer ... so now I have to install MGA9, which I've downloaded, onto
it.
I had previously downloaded MGA9 and burnt it to DVD as the old Laptop
had a DVD drive .... however the new Desktop does NOT have a DVD drive,
just USB drives. So I need to get the MGA9 iso onto a Bootable USB
drive.
Has anybody got Win11 compatible instructions for
burning/coping/whatever a MGA9 iso file to a USB drive??
Or, hang on, I can still get to the MGA6 installation on the old Laptop
.... so I could use it to burn the Mageia9 (that I had previously
downloaded) to a USB drive.
So MGA9 burnt/copied on Win 11 to USB or on MGA6 to USB??
TIA.
For those of you following my continuing story ...... My HP 6730b Win7 Laptop (that I had installed MGA6 on) has died, sort of, before I got
around to installing MGA9 onto it.
However .... about six months ago, I purchased a New HP Win 11 Desktop computer ... so now I have to install MGA9, which I've downloaded, onto it.
I had previously downloaded MGA9 and burnt it to DVD as the old Laptop
had a DVD drive .... however the new Desktop does NOT have a DVD drive,
just USB drives. So I need to get the MGA9 iso onto a Bootable USB drive.
Has anybody got Win11 compatible instructions for burning/coping/
whatever a MGA9 iso file to a USB drive??
Or, hang on, I can still get to the MGA6 installation on the old
Laptop .... so I could use it to burn the Mageia9 (that I had previously downloaded) to a USB drive.
So MGA9 burnt/copied on Win 11 to USB or on MGA6 to USB??
TIA.
On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:43:41 +1100 Daniel70 wrote:
For those of you following my continuing story ...... My HP 6730b Win7
Laptop (that I had installed MGA6 on) has died, sort of, before I got
around to installing MGA9 onto it.
However .... about six months ago, I purchased a New HP Win 11 Desktop
computer ... so now I have to install MGA9, which I've downloaded, onto
it.
I had previously downloaded MGA9 and burnt it to DVD as the old Laptop
had a DVD drive .... however the new Desktop does NOT have a DVD drive,
just USB drives. So I need to get the MGA9 iso onto a Bootable USB
drive.
Has anybody got Win11 compatible instructions for
burning/coping/whatever a MGA9 iso file to a USB drive??
Or, hang on, I can still get to the MGA6 installation on the old Laptop
.... so I could use it to burn the Mageia9 (that I had previously
downloaded) to a USB drive.
So MGA9 burnt/copied on Win 11 to USB or on MGA6 to USB??
TIA.
Hi,
I was in a similar situation - I ran out of DVDs :-)
Well, once you have the ISO file, you can easily write it over the device, not as a file, but instead the whole USB device. I did the following:
cat /install/mga9x64.iso > /dev/sdb
Of cource you have to be sure to address the right device, assuming here
that sdb is your first USB stick.
Best regards,
On 2025-01-25 06:43, Daniel70 wrote:
For those of you following my continuing story ...... My HP 6730b Win7
Laptop (that I had installed MGA6 on) has died, sort of, before I got
around to installing MGA9 onto it.
However .... about six months ago, I purchased a New HP Win 11 Desktop
computer ... so now I have to install MGA9, which I've downloaded,
onto it.
I had previously downloaded MGA9 and burnt it to DVD as the old Laptop
had a DVD drive .... however the new Desktop does NOT have a DVD
drive, just USB drives. So I need to get the MGA9 iso onto a Bootable
USB drive.
Has anybody got Win11 compatible instructions for burning/coping/
whatever a MGA9 iso file to a USB drive??
Or, hang on, I can still get to the MGA6 installation on the old
Laptop .... so I could use it to burn the Mageia9 (that I had
previously downloaded) to a USB drive.
So MGA9 burnt/copied on Win 11 to USB or on MGA6 to USB??
TIA.
If you had a working MGA9 install, you could use our Isodumper to make
the usb drive. I believe there was an Isodumper for M6, but it wouldn't
have all the features/bugfixes of the MGA9 version.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media#Put_the_ISO_on_a_media_of_your_choice
has information on dumping to usb using various Linux distros. It was written for an earlier version of Mageia, but the technique is the same.
I have no clue about using Windows for such things. I haven't done that since my Windows 2000 days. However, there is some information on https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Dump_Mageia_ISO_on_a_USB_flash_drive_-_Alternative_tools
TJ
On 26/01/2025 2:02 am, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:<snip>
cat /install/mga9x64.iso > /dev/sdb
Of cource you have to be sure to address the right device, assuming here
that sdb is your first USB stick.
Good thought, Markus .... but, as the other two devices I have connected
by USB are my Keyboard and my Mouse, I don't THINK I can do too much
damage!! ;-P
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:03:24 -0500, Daniel70
<daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
On 26/01/2025 2:02 am, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:<snip>
cat /install/mga9x64.iso > /dev/sdb
Of cource you have to be sure to address the right device, assuming
here that sdb is your first USB stick.
Good thought, Markus .... but, as the other two devices I have
connected by USB are my Keyboard and my Mouse, I don't THINK I can do
too much damage!! ;-P
The dev/sd? entries are for disk drives. Doesn't matter if they are ide, sata, usb, etc.
Make sure you know which /dev/sd? entry is for what, or you may
overwrite your disk drive.
That's one of the reasons to use isodumper. It only shows usb drives.
The following script will show just usb drives ...
$ cat /home/dave/bin/listusbdrives #!/bin/bash
for block in $(tree -if /sys/devices|grep usb|grep
/block/sd[a-z]$); do
device=${block##*/} # strip last slash and everything before
it.
printf '%s\n' "$device"
done
Regards, Dave Hodgins
mount /dev/brain
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:03:24 -0500, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
On 26/01/2025 2:02 am, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:<snip>
cat /install/mga9x64.iso > /dev/sdb
Of cource you have to be sure to address the right device, assuming here >>> that sdb is your first USB stick.
Good thought, Markus .... but, as the other two devices I have connected
by USB are my Keyboard and my Mouse, I don't THINK I can do too much
damage!! ;-P
The dev/sd? entries are for disk drives. Doesn't matter if they are ide, sata, usb, etc.
Make sure you know which /dev/sd? entry is for what, or you may
overwrite your disk
drive.
That's one of the reasons to use isodumper. It only shows usb drives.
The following script will show just usb drives ...
$ cat /home/dave/bin/listusbdrives
#!/bin/bash
for block in $(tree -if /sys/devices|grep usb|grep
/block/sd[a-z]$); do
device=${block##*/} # strip last slash and everything before it.
printf '%s\n' "$device"
done
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Besides this, always remember the first command, we should use when
working under Unix / Linux / MacOS:
mount /dev/brain
On 27/01/2025 3:47 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:<snip>
The following script will show just usb drives ...
$ cat /home/dave/bin/listusbdrives
#!/bin/bash
for block in $(tree -if /sys/devices|grep usb|grep
/block/sd[a-z]$); do
device=${block##*/} # strip last slash and everything before it.
printf '%s\n' "$device"
done
I'm guessing I'd have to adjust the /home/ *dave* /bin bit first!! ;-P
On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:02:23 -0500, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
On 27/01/2025 3:47 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:<snip>
The following script will show just usb drives ...
$ cat /home/dave/bin/listusbdrives
#!/bin/bash
for block in $(tree -if /sys/devices|grep usb|grep
/block/sd[a-z]$); do
device=${block##*/} # strip last slash and everything before
it.
printf '%s\n' "$device"
done
I'm guessing I'd have to adjust the /home/ *dave* /bin bit first!! ;-P
Yeah. What the above is showing is a script I wrote on my computer.
You'll need to create
the file in your ~/bin directory, copy/paste the script and save it,
then run
"chmod a+x ~/bin/listusbdrives" to make it executable.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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