Dan S said : > I was on a machine which was too old to allow usb boot - someone > mentioned that it's possible to use a CD+USB in combination (i.e. the > computer boots the CD, but the CD's bootloader then chooses to load > the USB OS). didn't try it though
yeah that's the best way to do it if you have a dodgy CD medium or reader: - make a C&C CD - make a C&C USB key (using the script) - plug the key, put the CD in - boot the machine - at the startup prompt, hit <TAB> to edit the boot options of the CD. - add to the line live-media=/dev/sdb1 (you might have to play around this value to reflect your hardware devices config) - press <ENTER> - the USB key will be used to load the system image - proceed with a liveHD install using the script or a full install vi the menu. Also, might be worth checking if the manufacturer of your machine made a BIOS update for USB boot (small chance, but you never know...) > 2010/2/1 grant centauri <[email protected]>: > > I was thinking that perhaps I could make a partition on the drive to be a > > liveHD install of C&C? It seemed like the make-live-device script wouldn't > > work for that because of an issue where if I put /dev/sda3 it was trying to > > create partitions /dev/sda31 and /dev/sda32. Perhaps there's a minor change > > to the script that could be made to allow it to live on a partition of a > > drive? Or perhaps there's another method to put the ISO somewhere and make > > it bootable? It seemed like there was a way with leek&potato, but I wasn't > > sure with C&C. Anything you could with L&P will work with C&C. You can indeed cp the live folder, inside the ISO, by hand in a partition and edit your boot manager to point to it, etc... This is what the script is doing for you, but, as mentioned in another thread, the script at the moment does it removing all your data on the target device, it just wipe out all existing partitions and creates two new: one for the live system, and one for the persitence. Which is why you need to point to /dev/sda and not /dev/sda[n]. a. --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
