On 04/05/2021 01.24, Doug McGarrett wrote:

On 4/30/21 5:48 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 30/04/2021 08.28, Doug McGarrett wrote:

On 4/29/21 5:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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A new week. I was thoroughly burned out last week. One problem I found,

nothing to do with the blown computer, was
the usb sticks. I have a small dish of them, mostly used. Tried to format one using Linux--it took an hour. Then formatted
one using GParted --took milliseconds. In both cases, putting a recovery boot system on each of them failed.

Do not try to format the sticks. Just do EXACTLY what the instructions page for putting the ISO on the USB stick that I pointed you to, say. Nothing more, nothing less.

The instructions do not say "format the stick". So, don't.

Finally
made a DVD which booted nicely, if a lot slower. It thinks it's Mageia,

Then it is the wrong disk. The link I gave you was "openSUSE"

but it has a graphical desktop and abilities, so used
it to copy off what I could--lots of files but no pictures. Perhaps that part of the system got fried with the crash.
Anyway: I would never try to use a reformatted usb stick again for something like this, but I don't have any brand new ones.
I don't know why they don't work, they just don't.

Will install a new TW system on the computer as soon as possible. I would like to know how to set the install routine
to make /boot and /home partitions so if this happens again I may have a slightly better chance of recovery. Do I
use GParted to make partitions first, or what? Tried that when I installed the old system, but it didn't work. Please advise.

Our advice will always be to forget Tumbleweed and use Leap. How many times have you reinstalled TW?