[Sussex] Booting from a USB device

[Brendan Whelan]

Stephen,

Thanks for the details - I will try an install on a USB device when I 
get some free time.

Brendan
Stephen Williams wrote:
> Brendan,
>
> If 256Mb isn't big enough try this:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freecom-30475-DataBar-16GB-USB-2-0/dp/B0013BRSKK/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1202842304&sr=8-10
>
> For the actual install this may be of use:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
>
> Also this:
>
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/
>
>
> Hope this is of use.
>
> Steve W.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:49 +0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
>   
>> There appear to be a number of advantages in being able to boot Linux 
>> (in my case Fedora) from a USB device.
>> Memory sticks are possibly a bit small (as I would like to install a 
>> complete database application) but I have a 250GB USB disk which would 
>> be large enough! Has anyone any experience or advice on using this 
>> approach and links to any useful web sites. Thanks, Brendan
>>
>>
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