On Wed, November 12, 2008 4:49 pm, Christopher Rawnsley wrote: > While I don't have a Acer Aspire I do have a netbook of some kind and > I would like to raise the general issue that you get with them. They > don't have CD drives. From the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like > too big a deal for you as you have an external one (although you have > dropped in to the kernel debugger...) but I would imagine that many > people don't have such a luxury. > > I think USB flash images are the way to go and I dug up a script from > Dario Freni on FreeBSD front for converting ISO images to USB disc > images[1]. I think this is a start and I would like to encourage the > creation of one for the DragonFly Project. I want to work on this but > it's bound to take me a while :) Anyone got any tips?
Looking at the script, it appears to mount the ISO and then copy the files over to the USB drive. The nrelease process for building a LiveCD on DragonFly puts together the same set of system files in the process; you could probably use that process to create the USB drive. It'd even be able to "clone" an up-to-date system similar in spirit, if not in method, to what Constantine described. Also, if you're lacking a CDROM but have a workable network connection, the netboot facility on the DragonFly CD works very well; you just need a network connection and another device to boot the CD on. I was able to use it with a old desktop chassis that had only the CPU, RAM, and CDROM still installed.