Adrian Fisher wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no
> CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on
> it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of
> installing software manually, other than the few packages Asus saw fit
> to make available for it. To this end I will need to boot from a USB
> flash drive, is this done any differently than with a CD/DVD drive? How
> do I install the image to this device?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> A.
>
If you can get a bootable image on your flash drive and your bios
supports booting from usb, it should work. The lfs-liveCD has version
6.3 on it and it might not support your hardware. This was the case with
my brand new Pavilion dv6.
Ubuntu 9.04 has a livecd for the "Desktop" version. I had to resort to
this to build on the new laptop. Trick is you have to "Quit" the Ubuntu
install to activate livecd. They don't tell you this--one of the things
I don't like about distros.
Search the {,B}LFS mailing lists archives. There have been discussions
about usb booting and they may be more helpful than I can be.
Dan
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