Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread T
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

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread Helge Hafting
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

RE: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
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

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Espen Talberg
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

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
eem 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 ? ht

RE: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Mark Coetser
> -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 b

USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread 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

Re: rescue boot.

2004-11-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
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 rescu

rescue boot.

2004-11-27 Thread Chris Wakefield
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/