Am 09.08.2011 21:48, schrieb C Anthony Risinger: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Btw, with these ISOs, you can do this: >> 1) Copy the /arch folder from any of the ISOs to the root of any USB >> drive (stick must be vfat, ext2/3/4 or btrfs) >> 2) Run 'extlinux -i $PATH_TO_USB/arch/boot/syslinux/' >> 3) Run 'sed 's|ARCH_201108|filesystemlabeloftheusb|' -i >> $PATH_TO_USB/arch/boot/syslinux/*.cfg >> 4) Install MBR to the USB and mark the partition active >> >> After these steps, you have a bootable USB without overwriting your >> whole USB with dd. Just did that to my USB drive again, so I have an >> up-to-date Arch system on it. > > nice ... very cool! tried this last night to fix a btrfs prob i was having. > > maybe it was obvious (i didn't spend much time investigating), but > once inside, is there simple access to the boot partition? IOW, if i > put the /arch directory on a USB stick with a single partition, how > can i get access to the rest of the partition/FS and it's free space?
Have a look at /bootmnt/. You need to run mount -o remount,rw /bootmnt though to write to it - and I would recommend remounting read-only before shutting down as well. > would 2 partitions be the only clear way ATM? Two partitions are actually bad. Right now, I use vfat for compatibility with Windows machines - Windows is very easily confused with USB drives with more than one partition.
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