[OT] Burning usb keys (was: Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?)
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package.
> >> [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug...
> >>
> >> This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers
> >> with floppy drives in them.
> >
> > OK. Why isn't there a grub-stick package to dd onto a UBS stick?
>
> Excellent question. The Ubuntu LiveCD is adequate to the task,
> though. (I tried the "standard" Lenny LiveCD, but after searching
> for my CD drive on sda, it turned my screen a weird pixelated grey.)
I can recommend unetbootin (google). I needed to get a few things
(all available in etch) for it to install correctly, but I've since
burned Zenwalk to a usb key and it boots into the installer. I'm
getting ZW live iso now to see if it goes further (a running desktop).
unetbootin supplies a .deb, which once installed burns a url or an
on-disk iso to the key then makes it bootable. Pretty slick, and real
simple to use.
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