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Debian Live on a USB memory stick?



Alle 15:22, luned? 10 aprile 2006, Chris Lale ha scritto:
> I followed the wiki instructions for making a Debian Live CD with
> live-package and it worked first time! Brilliant.

Nice!

> Is it possible to create a bootable Debian Live USB stick?

It will be for sure, relevant code should be adder to casper and make-live, 
then you will be able to do that by simply invoking "makelive usb <flavour>".

> I used cfdisk 
> to format my 256MB memory stick with the Boot flag set and formatted it
> with mkfs.vfat. I copied the contents of the live/image/ directory onto
> the memory stick and tried to boot from it. I got a message saying that
> the disc was not bootable and asking me to insert a bootable floppy. Do
> I need to do something else - install Grub perhaps?

You need to install grub and find that initramfs could find the loop squashfs 
image on the stick.


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