I'd be interested to know how well this works with wildly different hardware configurations. I know when I installed Ubuntu on a Dell 170L, copying that image to a Dell 210L would not work.
I found a really neat way of partitioning a USB drive (flash or hard drive) using the Ubuntu Live CD image (I assume it _might_ be adapted for other Live CDs) in order to have the Live CD hardware detection on boot, along with the persistence of data, installed packages, etc. I thought that was pretty neat. On 4/20/07, Dutch Rapley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this line says it best. > > "Installing from a CD might be simpler, but it sure ain't as sexy/geeky." > > I actually did something a little differently. If anyone noticed last > night, I had an external hard drive attached to the computer. Rather > than installing openSUSE locally on my laptop, I had actually > installed it onto the external hardrive, including the MBR, and set my > computer to boot from USB before the internal hard drive. I > essentially have a "live installation" that I can plug into any > computer that supports "boot from USB." FYI, I would only do this over > USB 2.0. So if you wanted to try it at home, make sure your USB on > your computer and the external hard drive you use both support USB > 2.0. > > The hard drive I used is a Western Digital Passport. For computers > that supply it, it uses power over USB, so no external power supply is > necessary. > > -Dutch -- -Simón A. Ruiz _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
