Re: Installing on usb thumb drive,

[Dave Patterson <sdpatt2@gmail.com>]

* Chuck Payne <cepayne@magidesign.com> [2006-06-22 02:28:31 -0400]:

> Hey,
> 
> Can some one tell me how to get grub to install only on the usb 
> thumbdrive? I tried to install and over wrote my other os installer. 
> Debain see my thumb drive sba2
> 
Most thumb drives are sda, sdb, sdc, etc.

If that's the case with you,

grub-install --recheck /dev/sda

which writes to the MBR of the thumb drive.

what are you trying to do?  Dual-boot from thumb drive?

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Cheers,

  Dave