I have a similar situation. I created an SL 7.5 "everything"  16.0 Gb

USB 3.0 flash disk using unetbootin on windows 10. But, I no luck

with my Dell. I will report when I'm back at my remote site; it is

sitting at the BIOS prompt now...



Carl Friedberg

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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:01 PM

To: SL Users <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: Re: Loading SL 7.5 from Flash Drive



On 05/15/2018 03:19 PM, Larry Linder wrote:

> I have a usb 3 - 16 G flash drive.

> When I try to drag and drop "SL 7.5 everything" it gets to 4.2 G and

> quits.  After about 1 minute it come back and says that it cannot splice

> file.

> 

> The crual joke is that when you move the partial file to trash - no

> delte option is available. It creates a .Trash folder.  Two tries and

> you dont have enough space.

> Nice idea but DUMB.  Oper a terminal mode and us "rm -rf *" and you are

> back in business.

> 

> I there any way around the 4 G limit and where does it come from ?

> 

> Thank You

> Larry Linder

> 



Are you dragging the iso to a formatted usb drive?  If so, you might be 

running into the filesystem limits.  Also, it won't boot that way.  If 

you want to boot directly, you will need to 'dd' the file to the raw 

device node of the usb drive (e.g. /dev/sdb).  This will wipe anything 

that is already on the drive.  Otherwise you will have to use some 

bootloader that is filesystem aware like unetbootin or whatever it is 

called.