i also want this on my external hdd i have a small x-less sid installed on it to experiment with live-helper and i also made a special partition that has a frugal install of puppy booting from the same grub this volume still has some more rooms for other distros was wondering if booting from grub > pd.iso kinda thing could be done but if it could be done with live folder .. that makes things simple
am now also testing thing with boot-usb-flash easily made from live-intrepid-cd (the process is now super simple cuz booted gnome has a menu for that) it is a root-persistent system but the only one thing that makes me uneasy is that the boot will be done on that syslinux structure then when i try to do the dist-upgrade thang it blame me about grub am afriad of running that aptitude anymore cuz it once made the system unbootable well i think i would rather use p:d as is (i mean no upgrades via aptitude) but since we're talking about booting from grub there's gonna be a lot of good points based on that aspect? well if the answer is yes .. no trouble using aptitude to install and upgrade thangs i think i will just start thinking about doing the opposite of what i have just said oh .. hey! wait a minute!! if i have a super small non-live-but-grub-bootable-debian installed on a usb-flash i can also have a live-p:d booting from it?! if yes i think that combination is gonna be what i want for my 4G-flash that has 2GB left for OSs was once thinking about making the internal-sdd of mini9 OS-less and instead make booting from a live-os installed on an usb-flash a ordinary process well after all .. am not going that way but grubby-p:d on a usb-flash is almost the same with that idea well .. but at this moment even the live cdrom of p:d doesn't boot on my mini9 maybe it has something to do with the kernel? cuz i also tried that instruction to install p:d on top of lenny the kernel came in and the system goes unbootable btw: my artigo got broken ... so this mini9 is the only one that boots from the usb device On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:12:25PM -0800, krgn wrote: > do you have already a some gnu/linux system intalled? if yes, you can copy > the 'live' folder from the root of the pure:dyne CD/DVD to the root > partition on your computer and edit the grub.conf file of your normal > gnu/linux installation to include pure:dyne. you can find an example > grub.conf (or sometimes its called 'menu.lst' too) in the 'extra' folder on > the CD/DVD. > if you don't have another gnu/linux system installed its a little trickier > and I'm not 100% sure what to advise in that case, but you could consider > getting an external usb hard-drive and run pure:dyne from that. > -- '2+ is podcasting his music kinda thang http://sarigama.namaste.jp/podcast/rss.xml --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
