On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 16:54 -0400, Ben Stern wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:59:13AM -0400, Peter Teuben wrote: > > I apoligize for being unclear, but in my message I meant > > that I don't have a boot device, not the media. Sony's > > used to be special, but some websites seem to describe > > booting from a generic USB cdrom with a special lilo/grub > > flag. > > Allegedly, a boot USB thumb drive might be a winner here. > > There are several Windows mechanisms for building such a device (even for > Linux), and some Linux mechanisms - Slackware, for example, will make a > bootable USB thumb drive, and I'm sure that other distros can too. > > Note that this requires USB,
Let me amplify that to: support for *booting* from USB. My friend has a computer with USB, but it couldn't seem to boot from my thumb drive. > and also will obliterate any data on that > USB drive. Not necessarily; Fedora's "livecd-iso-to-disk" stores the live image in an existing vfat filesystem without losing any other data in that filesystem. Matt
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