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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:59 pm Posts: 3252 Location: Deep South, New Zealand Has thanked: 64 times Have thanks: 134 times 
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Post # 230572
 mepis-system updateHi all,
Just a quick note on the mepis-system (8.5.00) to 8.5.01 update today. From Warren:
I've checked and it works perfectly - very quick too. Menu > Settings > Mepis System Assistant > MEPIS USB Key I love the fact you can point it to an iso on your hard-drive now rather than having to use a live-cd. Nice tool - thanks Warren  _________________ Desktop - Win 8-64 : Corsair 520HX, P5Q Pro, Q6600 G0 @ 3Ghz, 4Gb DDR2 1066, Asus GTX560 OC, 3xWD 500Gb Sata2, Asus CD/DVD, Logitech Wave Kb, G5, C300 Cam, Audio-gd NFB-12 + LD MKIV + GigaWorks T20. Netbook - Ubuntu 12.04 64b, Asus 1015PED 2Gb Ram |
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| Wed May 12, 2010 6:17 am |
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MEPIS Novice   Joined: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:08 pm Posts: 72 Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 230591
Would that mean setting boot option "usb zip drive" should work on my older bios?
_________________ | (Desktop/LAMP Server) openSUSE 11.3-32bit) | KDE 4.6b2 | Compiz-Emerald | AMD K7 Athlon XP 3000+ | MSI K7N2 Delta-L | 3GB Black Diamond DDR | GeForce 6200@433Mhz 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 AGP 8X | NVIDIA 256.53 |
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| Wed May 12, 2010 8:49 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:59 pm Posts: 3252 Location: Deep South, New Zealand Has thanked: 64 times Have thanks: 134 times
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Post # 230592
Try it and see. What do you have to lose?
_________________ Desktop - Win 8-64 : Corsair 520HX, P5Q Pro, Q6600 G0 @ 3Ghz, 4Gb DDR2 1066, Asus GTX560 OC, 3xWD 500Gb Sata2, Asus CD/DVD, Logitech Wave Kb, G5, C300 Cam, Audio-gd NFB-12 + LD MKIV + GigaWorks T20. Netbook - Ubuntu 12.04 64b, Asus 1015PED 2Gb Ram |
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| Wed May 12, 2010 8:52 am |
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MEPIS is cool!  
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Post # 230605
I think that option may well be for the Iomega zip disks that were once available. That is it's purpose on my machine that has it in BIOS anyway.
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| Wed May 12, 2010 11:37 am |
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Post # 230702
Hmmm - I have found many USB keys don't respond well to re-formatting with anything other than FAT16...General consensus on this seems to be - the jury is out! YMMV...UNetbootin has been making live USB keys from .iso's for ages..
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| Thu May 13, 2010 6:01 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7401 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 331 times Have thanks: 1204 times
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Post # 230814
It worked to make a bootable drive on a preformatted fat32 stick. I chose the Zip option just to see what would happen, but the laptops, set to boot from USB by default, still booted the stick without any BIOS changes necessary.
It copied over the system to the stick just as fast as unetbootin, and the previous msystem version created an empty drive--this one worked as it was supposed to. I did not have to pull out or reinsert the drive, either. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Thu May 13, 2010 9:39 pm |
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