Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM EST, Chris Jones wrote: > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition > to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the > HDD or be allowed to partition t

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > I guess the "better way" is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is >> > available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and >> > get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. >> >> I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is >> discovered

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:48:49PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I guess the "better way" is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is > > available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and > > get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. > > I understand just fine

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:48:49PM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I guess the "better way" is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is > > available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and > > get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. > > I understand just fine h

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I guess the "better way" is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is > available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and > get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is discovered (typically at boot

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:35:49PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:30:43AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > So I guess the rules need to be cleaned up every time you know you > > are using a given system for the last time? > > > You could try deleting the file that creates t

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-12-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:30:43AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:45:11AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > > > I have a "Live USB Debi

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:45:11AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > I have a "Live USB Debian" system that follows this idea (i.e. it's > just a plain normal Debian

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition > to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. I have a "Live USB Debian" system that follows this idea (i.e. it's just a plain normal Debian install, except it works off of a USB stick). > . clone the lenny parti

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:00:55PM EST, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: [..] > Hm, not necessary to install from scratch. > Just copy over to the usb and put in fstab and relevant files > (grub,etc) the disk id instead of /dev/sda (you need udev for this), > so you can be sure to use the same device no ma

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: >> I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition >> to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. >> >> Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the >> HDD o

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:59:21PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > > > Since I can't be sure I'll have a

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition > to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the > HDD or be allowed to partition

Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Jones
I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the HDD or be allowed to partition the drive, what I thought was that I could have a bootable system on t