Thanks to all those who offered help :) Regards,
A. [email protected] wrote: > There is another method you can try. The Eee lets you boot from > SD/SDHC, so you could try mounting an SD chip on the computer you are > building LFS with, and build LFS on the SD chip. Then insert the chip > into the Eee and boot from it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan McGhee" <[email protected]> > To: "LFS Support List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:37:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop > > 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 > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
