Re: USB Boot to R50 Thinkpad
From: Stefan Monnier (monnier_at_iro.umontreal.ca)
Date: 07/28/04
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:44:59 GMT
> What are the steps to make a 128 USB flash memory stick contain a complete
> kernel, using RH 9.0?
I recommend you don't start from a distribution like RH.
Such distributions always assume they have a writable hard-drive available
for /var and such stuff: using the USB drive for that would eat up the
limited-max-number-of-writes of your flash memory too quickly (at least for
my taste).
You want to use a distribution that directly works off of a read-only media
(CD or flash).
> Of course, I could do the whole thing from a bootable CD,
> BUT that wouldn't be any fun now, would it?
Agreed, except when the bootable CD happens to be your FSF membership card
(which incidentally is using the www.lnx-bbc.org distribution which should
fit on a 128MB flash disk).
Stefan "who failed to boot his Thinkpad X30 off of a USB disk"
PS: Check out also http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/ which seems to aim at
USB disks rather than CDs.
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