Hi ... we have about 30 pc at school that doesn't boot correctly from usb devices, by now i'm doing network installs with partimage but in some cases, wifi access only pc i don't know how to do it. In these i like to install our own Live Debian based distro, Xarnoppix build up with makeliveusbcd a very similar project but with diferent guidelines regarding points 2 and 3 of Debian Live Initiative.
I think the recipe would be helpful when Debian Live allows usb boot, ... it seems to work correctly in i386. xarbox:~# grub-floppy /dev/fd0 xarbox:~# fdformat /dev/fd0 xarbox:~# mke2fs /dev/fd0 xarbox:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 xarbox:~# mkdir -p /media/floppy0/boot/grub xarbox:~# touch /media/floppy0/boot/grub/{menu.lst,device.map} xarbox:~# nano /media/floppy0/boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 10 color cyan/blue white/blue title Xarnoppix USB BOOT FLOPPY kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img xarbox:~# nano /media/floppy0/boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sdb # I have a SATA disk ( /dev/sda ) then USB device becomes /dev/sdb xarbox:~# grub-install --root-directory=/media/floppy0 '(fd0)' xarbox:~# umount /dev/fd0 xarbox:~# reboot cu _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel