Bootable USB

[Brian Kemp]

Jim,

I'm not familiar with the RedHat/CentOS/SuSE world; I've mostly stuck to
Debian derivatives, so...

Doesn't 9.04 come with an option to create a bootable USB device? (I
don't run 9.04 much and my only 9.04 box is about to be replaced with
gNewSense 2.2)

My FSF membership card is bootable to gNewSense 2.1, although I didn't
install it so maybe it was hard :)

I believe the Ubuntu community has been enjoying the fruit of these
labors for about a month.

As for me, I don't have many boxes that can boot off USB. So Live CDs
are not going away but it's great to have more options. (Plus you don't
have to keep making plastic discs that aren't so handy when the next
release hits, RW media notwithstanding.)

--BK


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> A USB Flash Drive is just another form of a disk. What's the big deal?
> 
> In theory, nothing. And indeed, CentOS 5.2 (and other suitably modern 
> distros) will indeed install and run exactly as as any other disk, 
> assuming that your computer can boot a USB disk.
> 
> However, up until recently, you had to make a few tweaks. The basic idea 
> is that the initrd has to load the drivers. What was needed (as recently 
> as CentOS 5.0) was after doing the install (which needed the "expert" 
> flag added to the boot: prompt), you had to boot the install system in 
> Rescue Mode, and rebuild the initrd.
> 
> The easiest way was to figure out which drivers you needed (try 
> usb-storage and things with sd in them) to add and mark them a 
> scsi-controller in /etc/modprobe.conf and do another mkinitrd.
> 
> More difficult is adding an option switch for each desired module. 
> Harder still is picking the initrd apart via gunzip and cpio and 
> reassembling in after modifying the "filesystem".
> 
> Note that I am glossing over details, mostly because you needn't do most 
> or indeed any of this stuff anymore...it just works because the distro 
> builders are putting more stuff in the installers because more people 
> are using systems that way.
> 
> Guess what? With the advent of Flash Drives....
> 
> LIVE CDS ARE DEAD. Well, not dead, but unnecessary.
> 
> You heard it here first.
> 
> JIM
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> Robert Eisenzopf wrote:
> > Likewise at the same site a topic just covered,
> > "How to Install a Linux Distro to a USB Flashdrive" 
> > using either Ubuntu orFedora
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