On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:53 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:18:43PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
>>>
>> Without looking into it extensively, I find that 'mkusb.sh' is
>> specialized to loading a CD image that is laid out the way that
>> RIPLinuX.iso is. i.e. all files in directory /boot, and a Linux
>> kernel named /boot/kernel. If it doesn't find this it quits.
>
> I don't imagine it would work in a general sense, since a lot depends
> on what is in the initrd as far as finding the rest of the filesystem.
> mkusb.sh is specifically for the RIP Linux.
You were the one who so enthusiastically recommended "mkusb.sh".
> You might try searching for the particular distribution you are
> interested in, since for many, people have figured out how to make USB
> drives that will boot them.
We have just come full circle in the discussion, since the program
"unetbootin" is what many people use to make bootable USB drives for a
number of different distributions. And I don't trust it because it
diddles the bootloader on the host system, as described in its
documentation.
I have stopped trying to do this in an emulated system, because I
can't make QEMU use the USB hardware on the host system. I have now
installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a spare 6GB drive that I mounted in my
spare Thinkpad. Tomorrow I will see what unetbootin accomplishes.
carl
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