On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote:
> > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases.
> > The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't
> > get MFCed to stable/7. Even if it was we're already something of a
> > heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and DVD) so my plan all
> > along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the
> > same time drop CDs-with-packages.
>
> FWIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how
> to read the install off a DOS device :)
Still to figure out how your method - using Luigi's syslinux boot off a
FAT slice on a stick - works when 7's sysinstall can't see USB disks?
cheers, Ian
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