Re: USB rescue/boot disk
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for me. Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? Just about any live/rescue CD/diskette with usb support should do the trick, I think. Knoppix, for example? Of course some USB sticks are smaller than a full CD, in which case you go for one of the smaller rescue/live CDs. DSL is 50MB, for example. Helge Hafting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB rescue/boot disk
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:29:04 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). ... Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere? When talking about rescue Live CD, IMHO, nothing comes close to grml (grml.org). What's more exciting is that it also come with an 55M alternative iso, which is ideal for a Live USB. It is a pure Debian 386 based Live system that will boot any machine that allows booting usb. The root fs is read only, so it should be usb friendly. http://grml.org/faq/#grmlsmall tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB rescue/boot disk
A simple solution would be to follow this instuction: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apas02.html#howto-getting-images-usb ISO media, in this case hd-media, can be found at this location: http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ The easiest solution would only consist of three steps. Extract and burn the hd-media.img.gz to an USB-stick. Add your ISO of choice to the USB and your set to go. Any Debian ISO would do, and you could change to a new ISO later if you wish. I'm not sure that this would produce a rescue CD, but it's a effective way to test any new Debian ISO-image. --- Espen Talberg Norway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB rescue/boot disk
Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for me. Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB rescue/boot disk
-Original Message- From: Joost Kraaijeveld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 September 2006 05:29 PM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: USB rescue/boot disk Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for me. Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 Thank you, Mark Adrian Coetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tux-edo.co.za, http://www.thummb.com cel: +27 76 527 8789 tel: +27 11 805 2076 fax: +27 11 805 2330 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB rescue/boot disk
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 17:29 schrieb Joost Kraaijeveld: Hi , I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for me. Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an image (yet?) )? Did you try DSL ? http://www.damnsmalllinux.org Regards Hans -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB rescue/boot disk
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 20:44 +0200, Mark Coetser wrote: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 Which is from the same person with nmore or less the same content as the link I mentioned (http://feraga.com/). But but some unknown reason I could not get it working -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rescue boot.
Greetings x86_64 users. I'm trying to boot to my x86_64 debian install on /dev/hde11 I am wanting a simple way to boot from the mini.iso (netboot.img??) or the debian from scratch iso or some such image. With the old 32 bit debian rescue floppy, I used to be able to use: rescue root=/dev/hdxx . I've tried grub every which way I can think of, but despite what *everybuddy* says about grub, I find it very fussy and annoying to use, but I'm unwilling to go back to lilo at this time, other than lilo on a floppy or whatever. I've tried chroot from suse x86_64 9.1, but I've got some Nvidia/XFree86 weirdness preventing console accessCTRL-ALT-F!, etc Can someone post some steps with one of these boot.cd's or, some other image, to enable me to boot to /dev/hde11? Thanks, Chris. W.
Re: rescue boot.
Chris Wakefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings x86_64 users. I'm trying to boot to my x86_64 debian install on /dev/hde11 I am wanting a simple way to boot from the mini.iso (netboot.img??) or the debian from scratch iso or some such image. With the old 32 bit debian rescue floppy, I used to be able to use: rescue root=/dev/hdxx . I've tried grub every which way I can think of, but despite what *everybuddy* says about grub, I find it very fussy and annoying to use, but I'm unwilling to go back to lilo at this time, other than lilo on a floppy or whatever. I've tried chroot from suse x86_64 9.1, but I've got some Nvidia/XFree86 weirdness preventing console accessCTRL-ALT-F!, etc Can someone post some steps with one of these boot.cd's or, some other image, to enable me to boot to /dev/hde11? Thanks, Chris. W. Boot the installer and let it run until it asks you a question (should be partitioning or network). Press ESC or hit cancel till you are at the main menu. Start a shell. Alternatively press Alt-F2 for the 2nd console. With sarge all debian kernels are totaly modular, no more build in stuff like woody had for disks. That means you can never ever do anything with the kernel without its initrd, root=... or init=/bin/sh doesn't work like before. MfG Goswin
