Re: Install from usb (was: Re: Straight to SID...)
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, John Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote:
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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.
>
Hi Jan,
There was a mini iso install called mini-woody which was renamed bonzai
linux on the berlios site that I used a while ago. It is woody
'bootfloppies' +2.4.21 kernel + kde 3.1(?) that fits on a 200mb (mini)cd.
-Kev
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