Alpha2 release (downloaded it yesterday) I can provide a guide for it if you are interested. The important part was to modify the mkinitcpio to have the usb hooks.
Michel On 1/17/07, Israel Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/17/07, Michel Di Croci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I installed arch linux completely on a usb key. I had to tweak the installer > since he didn't view the /dev/sda disk as a hard drive disk but that was the > only modification I had to do in the code. For the rest, it is working A1. A > bit slow to be honest when there's a lot of intensive HD transactions. I > know that larch exists and I've tried it before. > > The good thing on this way of doing is that I have real partitions that are > R/W on it. But since it's not loaded or RO like larch it is a lot slower > when installing stuff. But at least, it was a perfect test for me and I'm > pretty happy to be able to use my job's laptop as my personal one by using > only a usb key. > > I got a 2 gig usb key and I think it's a bit too short for gnome (the one > I'm used to). I will surely go to xfce-4 or openbox (not decided yet) > because, I've completed a normal install and I'm already at 1.3 gig on a > total of 1.5 for the root partition. > > That's all guys! :) > > Great work. > Wow, you've done this using Voodoo Alpha3 release? -- Israel Junior http://zael.wordpress.com "World domination. Fast." - Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
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