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Create Arch Linux based bootable USB drives
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external USB drive error #86

Closed ng0177 closed 2 years ago

ng0177 commented 2 years ago

Although possible make this external USB drive bootable with Arch, the below error is issued:

$ ls -al /dev/disk/by-id/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 10. Apr 16:24 usb-Seagate_BUP_Slim_BK_NA97E1B5-0:0 -> ../../sda

sudo ALMA_USER=archie alma create /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_BUP_Slim_BK_NA97E1B5-0:0 --presets ./user.toml

2022-04-10 16:26:46 ERROR alma > The given block device is neither removable nor a loop device
jamesmcm commented 2 years ago

What does it have under the /sys/block/{name}/ entry? Is removable there?

Otherwise you can use --allow-non-removable - make sure you specify the correct device though!

ng0177 commented 2 years ago

--allow-non-removable works like a charm.

$ ls -al /sys/block/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 10. Apr 20:49 sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
ng0177 commented 2 years ago

I still need to figure out how to increase the font size on a 4K monitor, though, to be able use it efficiently.

jamesmcm commented 2 years ago

Check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI it's per-application for most things unfortunately.

ng0177 commented 2 years ago

Only terminal i.e. console tty are relevant to me as I have not tried to get e.g. Gnome to work with alma (would be nice).