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Re: Boot from USB hard drive?



On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:28:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

Hi Goswin,

> > What do I need to do to install Debian on a USB hard drive?
> > And to boot from it?
> 
> Some time.

I spent some time this evening to get mine working. :-))

I use debootstrap to create a minimum filesystem.  Copy it over
to the USB hard drive.  Install the kernel and an initrd with 
usb-storage support.  Install grub, and there it goes. Lilo is
no go. :-((
 
Thanks.
Bao
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