Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-16 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 16 July 2012 11:56, Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 09:35:20 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [...] > As for the slight slowdown with a lot of read/writes, this might simply > be the nature of the medium compared with a hard disk. > > It certainly is; I tried running from a pendrive formatt

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 09:35:20 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 15 iul 12, 21:55:51, Loic J. Duros wrote: > > > > Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, > > and now I can boot from the USB flashdrive. > > /dev/sdb (a.k.a the MBR not the partition would have been

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 iul 12, 21:55:51, Loic J. Duros wrote: > Thanks so much for your answer! > > On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: > >>Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a > >>USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. > Great! I tried again! This time I specified /

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-15 Thread Loic J. Duros
Thanks so much for your answer! On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, and now I can boot from the USB flashdr

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Jul 2012 at 18:43:59 -0400, Loic J. Duros wrote: > I used Debian Wheezy net install to partition and install Debian on > a 32G thumbdrive. The installation went well, and I was able to boot > using Grub2. However, since I couldn't boot my regular hard drive > debian install without the u

Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-14 Thread Loic J. Duros
Hello: I used Debian Wheezy net install to partition and install Debian on a 32G thumbdrive. The installation went well, and I was able to boot using Grub2. However, since I couldn't boot my regular hard drive debian install without the usb stick in, I have reset grub and now I can't boot in