Install from usb (was: Re: Straight to SID...)

[John Smith <netman1@home.nl>]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 06:23 am, Tom wrote:
> > To install my system, I normally boot off Woody CD, install only the
> > minimal/base packages, reboot, upgrade the kernel, reboot, and then
> > install the rest of my SID debs I keep on my hard drive.
> >
> > (1) When booting from the Woody CD, what would happen if I said
> > "don't get the base system from the CD" and instead point
> > sources.list to my local SID partial mirror, assuming it has a SID
> > version of the base.
> >
> > (2) If (1) works, I suppose it's okay to install an upgraded kernel
> > during the "do you want to run tasksel or deselect" phase.
> >
> > This would reduce my setup times from about 30 minutes to about 20
> > minutes.
> 
> The new install system works (mostly?) for Sarge, which I have used, 
> maybe the same for Sid. I used the Net Install disk for Sarge, it had 
> an additional step available which I liked, you could install a new 
> kernel early on in the install process. This may be the speedup you are 
> looking for.
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
> - -- 
> Greg Madden
> Debian GNU/Linux
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Hi All,

	first time I hear from mini-install iso's. Great idea! Don't
know who is responsible for this (searched for netinst in the
packages but couldn't find anything) but would it be possible to
write such an iso to a usb memory stick and install from there?
Of course this depends on the machine being able to boot from usb
and I am actually looking for such a beast (anyone?) but this would
save a lot of money on cd- and floppy drives. While I'm at it, if
I can get rid of parallel port and ps2 interfaces too (want to keep
serial though) I wouldn't mind at all ;-)

Sincerely,

Jan.