Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread T
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:29:04 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to > boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). ... > > Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains > a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 b

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Mike McCarty wrote: > The use of any *NIX type file system which keeps access dates/times will > cause wearout very quickly. celejar writes: > Can't it be mounted read-only? Or just noatime. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread celejar
On 9/12/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: celejar wrote: > On 9/12/06, Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mark Coetser wrote@ >> >> >> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 >> >> I have an objection to that article. >> Nothing should be "installed" onto a flash d

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread celejar
On 9/12/06, Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Coetser wrote@ >> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 I have an objection to that article. Nothing should be "installed" onto a flash drive. You'd wear out your memory stick in no time. The only elegant solution I have fo

RE: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Mark Coetser wrote@ >> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 I have an objection to that article. Nothing should be "installed" onto a flash drive. You'd wear out your memory stick in no time. The only elegant solution I have found is Damn Small Linux, but unfortunately the authors

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
nor wrote: http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/ Joost Kraaijeveld escribió: Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work f

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread nor
http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/ Joost Kraaijeveld escribió: Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for me. Is i

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for me. Is it actually possible to create an USB res

RE: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 20:44 +0200, Mark Coetser wrote: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 Which is from the same person with nmore or less the same content as the link I mentioned (http://feraga.com/). But but some unknown reason I could not get it working -- Groeten, Joost

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 17:29 schrieb Joost Kraaijeveld: > Hi , > > I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to > boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on > the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for > me

RE: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Mark Coetser
> -Original Message- > From: Joost Kraaijeveld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 September 2006 05:29 PM > To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: USB rescue/boot disk > > Hi , > > I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me