Re: fc4 on memory stick
- From: John Austin <ja@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:01:29 +0100
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:47 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
On Monday 09 October 2006 12:14 pm, Lonni J Friedman wrote:Hi
On 10/9/06, Grumpy_Penguin <grumpypenguin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:So? you're not using it as a main distro just to repair the old one
On Monday 09 October 2006 10:42 am, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
Spent all yesterday searching google and experimenting but couldn't
find what I was looking for.
Sometime ago I bought a 1G memory stick for $20US and managed to
repartition and reformat it and copy enough FC4 onto it to have a
bootable device, basically turning a USB memory stick into a USB drive.
It has proven very useful as a recovery tool and as a network debugger.
I'm pretty sure it was done with instructions from a link I found on
this list. The instructions were very good, covering everything from
the MBR to the making of a USB capable initrd. Unfortunately, I
haven't a clue where to find it again.
Anybody remember seeing this link or know where it can be found?
Thanks for any help,
Mike Wright :m)
Why do it the hard way? jst put a bootable version of DSL [only
50Mb]linux on a 128 Mb stick and use that
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
Maybe because:
0) DSL != FC
1) DSL has alot of limitations (especially in the number of available
packages)
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Maybe
http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
but it is much easier than this -
Update 10_8_2006
initrd_usb.gz has been created right at the end of a
/sbin/mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=ohci-hcdclean FC5 install to a USB disk in "linux expert" mode.
After removing the FC5 DVD
Cont/Alt/F2
chroot /mnt/sysimage
--preload=usb-storage \
--preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/initrd_usb.gz \
2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
tweakingThis USB disk boots successfully on two machines with a bit of
grub.confof grub interactively during the first boot and then changing
as required.
Works with FC5 (with kde!!) on a 2G Kingston stick
DataTraveler Elite read and write speeds of up to 24MB/sec. and
14MB/sec.
Very usable !!
John
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