On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash
> > drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I
> > attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest
> > pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a
> > challenge...
> >
> > D
>
> Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple:
>
> dd if="/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso" of=/dev/<flash drive>
>
> not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal
> install CD, but I don't remember.
I tried that recently, but it failed. What I ended up doing was copying over
the needed files from the hard drive to the flash drive, then ran
grub-install to rewrite the grub files... Bingo... it boots now.
incidentally, this is a ext2 formatted flash drive...
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