On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:13, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I've got a Linutop PC, but maintaining the usual squashfs > system on a tiny USB stick is much too painful. I would > like to make the USB stick obsolete, and use a USB harddisk > instead. > Is d-i supposed to support installing and running Debian > on a USB harddisk drive without any USB stick or Floppy > drive available? The easiest would be if you had a CD-(ROM,R,RW)/DVD(+/-)(ROM,R,RW,RAM) drive. The easiest alternative method would be to preformat the usb hard disk and put the installer on the usb hard disk from another machine. Can you netboot? If so, there is also the netboot method. (Requires a dhcp and tftp server under your control). If none of those is possible you may be out of luck; How else do you obtain software/data to put on this computer? Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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