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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 64-bit usb boot environment
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:57:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef3a9af9c3fbdd93e8b3640a1fb17942@mikro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk2O6p+JX6f_H4ycjuaa1sDXgURCWiWBoh+Oq8nynjKZqHY4g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon Oct 21 00:54:51 EDT 2013, ruben@mostlymaths.net wrote:

> Erik, quick question:
>
> how can I go about getting it into one of my USB drives (if possible a
> method without needing a working P9, because all I have are virtual
> machines and I think they are in my other computer) and testing some of my
> "I'd like P9 here but installing got f*ed up"? I think every time I have
> tried it something or other has either made it non boot, or pretty similar
> (plug, reboot, nothing, repeat)

if you have a unix-like system, then
	bunzp2 < usbtest.bz2 |dd of=/my/usbdisk/device
should do.  i think there's something similar for windows, but
i don't use windows much.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-21  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-21  4:48 erik quanstrom
2013-10-21  4:53 ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-10-21  4:57   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-10-21  8:07 ` john francis lee
2013-10-21 18:50   ` Gabriel Diaz
2013-10-21 10:12     ` john francis lee
2013-10-21 18:51   ` gdiaz
2013-10-21 13:12     ` erik quanstrom

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