I'm trying to document a recipe for setting up booting to a USB hard drive,
similar to
William Hermans' recipe but using Robert Nelson's distributions. I've
written everything
mostly from memory from when I set up my SD card and haven't actually sat
down and
followed my own instructions.
I'm
My instructions are using Roberts debian images, and they are exact steps
taken to a working boot image.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Rusty Wright rusty.wri...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm trying to document a recipe for setting up booting to a USB hard
drive, similar to
William Hermans' recipe
Ok, thanks. I didn't understand that. Your instructions say
cd ~/rootfs/
Is that where Robert's debian image is that you're using? I didn't see on
your page
where you extract or download his files.
In my instructions I want to spell everything out and minimize guessing.
On Monday,
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Rusty Wright rusty.wri...@gmail.comwrote:
Ok, thanks. I didn't understand that. Your instructions say
cd ~/rootfs/
Is that where Robert's debian image is that you're using? I didn't see on
your page
where you extract or download his files.
In my
Rusty,
If you read all the articles I wrote that pertain to the various steps I
took along the way. There would be no guessing.
Anyhow the first part of that article describes what must be done( from 30k
feet ), and the second half is a working example, based on previous steps I
took for the
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:05 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote:
Rusty,
If you read all the articles I wrote that pertain to the various steps I
took along the way. There would be no guessing.
Anyhow the first part of that article describes what must be done( from
30k feet ), and
@Robert, Oh, I agree. I remember commenting how far even Debian has come in
the last 5 years or so when first working with your images. Then like you
say, uboot is very nice. NIce enough to the point when I first started this
endeavor, I was wondering whether or not I could use grub( because with
Thanks, I'll go back and re-read your articles. The lumpynose wordpress
site is really just a place for me to keep notes to myself. In a previous
life I helped other sysadmins so I naturally feel the need to say as much
as possible and assume the reader knows very little, in case someone
I forgot to say that the other motivation for this page is to verify that I
understand what's going on and what all the moving parts are.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Rusty Wright rusty.wri...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks, I'll go back and re-read your articles. The lumpynose wordpress
site is
Same reason for my blog site. But I also keep step by step text notes of
exactly what I did, as I did it. I had thoght about placing ads on the
page, but decided against it. Also, instead of making some long winded post
on th forums here about one of these subjects, it is much easier to just
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