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

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
for me. Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? From this location, you can make an installation:rescue

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread nor
it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread Helge Hafting
rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? Just about any live/rescue CD/diskette with usb support should do the trick, I think. Knoppix, for example? Of

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
eem to work for > me. > > Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains > a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image > available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an > image (yet?) )? > Did you try DSL ? ht

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 b

USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread 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. Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that