Thanks. And that sounds like a good solution to the immediate problem.
My concern with a band-aid-and-bailing-wire fix is that that I'll probably run into more, less easy soluble, problems in the future. If I'm going to set up multiple machines, I'd rather figure out what I did wrong so I can understand and avoid doing it again.
Just the same, what you suggest is helpful perspective.
Todd Zuercher wrote: If you were able to install the system from the USB device, trying again using a DVD disk will not likely give you any different results (unless you configure the installation differently this time around.)
If you were never able to get the Linuxcnc iso, properly installed on the usb drive, and did not install Debian Wheezy with it, then yes you might have better luck burning a DVD.
If you have installed Debian Wheezy from the Linuxcnc iso, (either from USB or a DVD) and you just want to copy over configuration files from another install you just need to copy the config files from the linuxcnc directory in the users home dir, from one machine to the other. No root privileges needed or involved in this process at all.
One note about installing an iso of a CD or DVD to a USB thumb drive. I've found that after doing this you can't really use any unused space on that drive. Unless you do something to recover that unused space. (I haven't had much luck with that.)
