Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM EST, Chris Jones wrote: I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the HDD or be allowed to partition the

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:48:49PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I guess the better way is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. I understand just fine how it

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
I guess the better way is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is discovered (typically at

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
I guess the better way is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is discovered (typically at boot),

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:48:49PM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: I guess the better way is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. I understand just fine how it

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:30:43AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:45:11AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. I have a Live USB Debian system

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:35:49PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:30:43AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] So I guess the rules need to be cleaned up every time you know you are using a given system for the last time? You could try deleting the file that creates the

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. I have a Live USB Debian system that follows this idea (i.e. it's just a plain normal Debian install, except it works off of a USB stick). . clone the lenny partition

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:45:11AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. I have a Live USB Debian system that follows this idea (i.e. it's just a plain normal Debian

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:59:21PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the HDD or be

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:00:55PM EST, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: [..] Hm, not necessary to install from scratch. Just copy over to the usb and put in fstab and relevant files (grub,etc) the disk id instead of /dev/sda (you need udev for this), so you can be sure to use the same device no

Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Jones
I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the HDD or be allowed to partition the drive, what I thought was that I could have a bootable system on

Re: Quick and dirty debian live on USB stick.

2009-11-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the HDD or be allowed to partition the