On Tuesday 06 October 2009 03:28:07 pm Eben King wrote:
> In a while (days/weeks) I'll build a machine.[1] It'll
> have USB ports and presumably the ability to boot from a
> USB hard drive (which I have) but it probably won't have
> a {C,DV}D drive and I don't have a USB {C,DV]D drive. So:
> what do I need to do to the USB hard drive besides make
> it bootable to allow installing some flavor of Linux from
> it? Or will it be easier to yank out the new machine's
> hard drive (actually an IDE->CF adapter) and take it to a
> machine that _does_ have an optical drive? If I do that
> I foresee problems in naming drives.
>
> Plus, it's a 16G card. Yeah, don't use swap, I know. I
> either need to use X or some console mp3 player with
> large enough type to read from across the room. I would
> prefer not to use X if I can avoid it. Resource hog,
> etc. Any suggestions?
>
> [1] A fanless mini-ITX machine sequestered in a tin (like
> once held cookies or popcorn).
eben,
I installed Suse and Ubuntu on a netbook using a thumb drive
for the installation. I would think the principles would
be the same for a USB hard drive. Here are a couple of
links that were helpful--
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/05/31/making-opensuse-110-liveusb-the-easiest-and-fastest-way/
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/402386-11-1-live-usb.html
Don
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