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On 12/28/2014 10:08 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
But its the Live operation I want to try out.
Eventually I got a combination that works. Sometimes. Most of the time. This Dell machine seems very finikity. I even tried a brand new out of the packet USB3 device, and yes that only works on USB3 ports and its still slow! I'd rather stick with the USB2 devices for 'portability'. One that works doesn't always work. By comparison, formatted fat there seems to be no problem, so its not a purely marginal device or marginal usb port. It does seem to be something to do with having "live" on the stick. "Finikity"? Well I always get the boot menu. As I've said, the media check does nothing. Booting into "live" takes a long time and then either I get the kernel panic or I get a screen full of green wavy lines and eventually -- maybe 2-3 minutes later, certainly long enough to walk down the corridor to the coffee nook and get a refill and come back and sit down and watch some more -- the KDE start icons appear, slowly. Once its running, its FAST and responsive but wants a huge zypper update! I can get cheap SD cards. I'm thinking of giving up on USB sticks since the cards can fit my camera and phone[1]. Perhaps I should look at live on a FAT file system and SD cards ... [1] I recall with the first Star Wars movie when R2D2 plugged into the network on the death star, thinking that universal compatibility of hardware interfaces was a joke, but ... Perhaps... -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org