On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 16:30 -0600, Sean Kirkby wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for suggestions re: what distro to use to install on a 2.0 GiB > USB thumb drive. > > In addition to support for booting from the thumb drive on machines with > BIOS's that allow that, we also need to have a boot floppy that can boot into > an environment in which "/" is on the thumb drive. > > I have found lots of references to DSL and Knoppix, but the weak instructions > I've been able to find haven't worked so far...
I was once going to work out a way to get my usb backup disk to be bootable over usb. Never got it working. But here's what you'd have to do on the linux side: - make sure /etc/fstab points to the proper devices (ie /dev/hda1 is probably not correct) - make sure the initial ramdisk has the usb drivers in it so that the kernel can find the root file system - use mkbootdisk to make a bootable floppy drive In the end I just made a special vmware player image that referred to the entire USB device (under windows) in raw mode, and then just made sure I had the scsi drivers in the initrd. Grub is written to the boot sector of the usb disk and vmware makes it seem like it's a normal scsi disk. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > --sk. > > ======================== > Sean Kirkby > Concentrico, Inc. > P: (801) 221-7606 x204 > W: www.Concentrico.net > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > GroupWise and Linux > to the Nth Power > - Formativ Solutions > - World-Class Service > ======================== > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
