On 2013-04-16, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install > > I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb > drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the > flash drive. I do not want a "LIVE install" with or without > persistence.
I just did an install to a usb flash drive in an interesting way. Well, interesting to me, at least. Didn't mess with grub or lilo or none of that stuff. Nothing to configure. I used kvm (qemu). I downloaded the installer to my home directory, plugged in my usb drive (unmounted), then started the installer like so: kvm -m 512 -hdb /dev/sdc -boot d -cdrom debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso Worked liked a charm, to coin a phrase. Apparently, there's no grub dangers or perils because all the installer and grub can see is the thumb drive and nothing else when run from inside the virtual machine using the above technique. I booted the installation up in kvm (with -m 1024) (I chose the LXDE desktop); it's pretty damn snappy even when run inside the virtual machine. Much snappier than the live isohybrid with LXDE I put on a usb stick and ran in kvm in the same way. Anyway. Just another way of doing things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnkmtgg9.32k.cu...@einstein.electron.org