Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 11/28/2015 01:34 PM, shawn wilson wrote: Google "debootstrap usb" ... On 11/28/2015 01:53 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > ifconfig -a > ip addr ls On 11/28/2015 03:08 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ? On 11/28/2015 09:11 PM, Felix Miata wr

[SOLVED] Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 11/28/2015 01:30 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:37:12 -0800 David Christensen wrote: Any ideas? There's one suggestion: if you install i386/486/whatever it should also run on 32-bit hardware. If and when I get this working, I may very well set up another USB flash drive with De

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread Felix Miata
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI composed on 2015-11-28 20:08 (UTC-0300): > Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ? +1 for the granddaddy of live media, a specialist in working automatically with the widest variety of hardware, and with all the tools one could hope for trying to do any kind

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 12:37:12 -0800, David Christensen wrote: [...] > I have installed Debian 8 amd64 onto a USB flash drive in i72600s with the > following tasks: > > SSH server > standard system utilities > > Very little additional software has been added. Installing to a USB flash

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ? > For me, it's just nice to have an easy to boot system w/ storage - takes me a few minutes to setup and then I've got a thumb disk I can boot for rescue disk or a dns server or web

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread Ron
Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ? Cheers, Ron. -- Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying those of us who do. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 28, 2015 4:30 PM, "Joe" wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:37:12 -0800 > David Christensen wrote: > > Why you may be barking up the wrong tree is that all the software is > there, but the Ethernet interface is not being brought up. DHCP on my > network is not being used, though the DHCP cl

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 11/28/2015 12:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > arc4 > > cifs > > crc16 > > dns_resolver > > ecb > > ext4 > > fuse > > hid > > hid_generic > > hmac > > jbd2 > > lp > > mbcache > > md4 > > nls_utf8 > > pci_stub > > usbhid > > vboxdrv > > vboxnetadp > > vboxnetflt > > vboxp

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 28, 2015 3:37 PM, "David Christensen" wrote: > > I am continuing to work on the idea of installing Debian on a USB flash drive for use in many machines, primarily for diagnostics, maintenance, repair, backup, archive, imaging, etc.. > Google "debootstrap usb" - should bring you to enough

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread Joe
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:37:12 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > I am continuing to work on the idea of installing Debian on a USB > flash drive for use in many machines, primarily for diagnostics, > maintenance, repair, backup, archive, imaging, etc.. > > > > > (Then again, I