On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > >> Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB >> flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM "live" system? >> >> > The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is to is to open up the > iso, copy in the appropriate drivers or packages, then make a new iso, and > either burn a new CD or USB. You could simply grab the appropriate .rpm or > .deb files to install by hand. Knoppix has a good tutorial on how to > customize, but since you don't know the target system, just copy in the > appropriate packages and install them after boot. >
Has any one played with the "Make a USB Startup Disk" tool in Ubuntu 8.10? I think it just showed up when I upgraded from 8.04 but maybe I installed it a while ago and forgot. Find it Under System > Administration > Create a USB startup disk. It looks pretty sweet. Could be just the thing for speedier testing and installing propritary drivers.
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