On 2017-11-13 17:00:26 dep wrote: > what ought to be a simple task has turned into a huge headache. > > the idea of a cool linux tablet being postponed, i thought i'd maybe update > an old acer aspire one netbook i had in a closet. it was last booted, to > kubuntu running a 2.6 kernel and kde-3.5.10, sometime in 2010. in that it > has a 1.6 mHz chip and a gig of memory on a 120-gig drive, it seemed a > good machine for a Q4OS experiment. (the experiment part being whether i > can keep my kde settings -- i have never enjoyed reconfiguring.) > > so i d/led the .iso for the current stable Q4OS, no problem. it's getting > it onto a USB stick that's killing me. > > reason is, when i insert the USB drive, it automounts and refuses to > unmount, and one apparently cannot make a bootable disk onto a mounted > drive. > > i've tried a couple of programs in hope of burning the bootable stick -- > the ubuntu startup disk creator and something called unetbootin. they both > blow up, apparently because the stick is mounted. the little icon for the > usb stick that appears at the top left of my monitor has the green line > saying it's mounted. i right click and click "unmount" and either nothing > happens or the green line disappears only to reappear soon thereafter. and > if i try to umount it, i'm told it's busy. > > in my younger days one or more pieces of equipment would by now have flown > across the room and smashed into the far wall, but i'm older and calmer > now. so it is merely driving me insane. there's got to be a way to get the > image onto the usb drive and make it bootable, but i'm damned if i can > find it, with automount confounding me at every turn. > > (i'm not interested in turning off automount forever -- i'm a photographer > and not having to manually mount sd cards is a wonderful thing.) > > anybody here have any ideas? Use lsof (list open files) to see what's making it busy, then umount? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
