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Re: Installing Debian on USB HDD



On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 00:50 +0000, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> Johnson, Chad wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> > 
> >I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on 
> it.  I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot
> to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my 
> drive is not listed, so I can't partition my drive.
> >  
> >
> Actually I would be interested in knowing how to do this too. What I 
> would want to do is install a minimal debian system on 1gb flash usb 2 
> with maybe 1gb memory (to avoid swapping on flash...). Coupled with a 
> low power / underclocked CPU, you could make very robust, fanless and 
> noiseless workstations with no mechanical parts in them...

There are ways to make bootable thumbdrives, so I'm sure that you
could do the same with a flash drive.

In fact, when Googling for "linux boot usb drive", the first two
entries are:
http://www.simonf.com/usb/
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/usb-instructions.htm

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