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| + | ===== USB booting - discussion page ===== | ||
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| + | Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions.. you name it. | ||
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| + | Eric | ||
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| + | You can also install from a usb pendrive. This is particularly useful if you have a high speed usb 2 port and a fast pendrive. After booting with the pendrive inserted, check that it is recognized with the dmesg command. | ||
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| + | The device file will most likely not be in the /dev directory. To create the device file, first find out what the major and minor numbers are by looking at the partitions present: | ||
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| + | If you have sata, you might get something like this: | ||
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| + | Create the device file with mknod: | ||
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| + | Then create a directory to mount on (NOT in the /mnt directory) and mount the pendrive: | ||
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| + | mount /dev/sdf1 / | ||
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| + | Partition your harddrive, and run setup. When asked what source, choose to install from a mounted directory.... | ||
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| + | (You can place this in the article if you think it relevant) | ||
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| + | Jim Doepp | ||
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| + | > Thank you for your article, but, can you please make a quick attempt to include a tutuorial 'for the rest of us' (ie.- simple enough for the win savvy but linux beginner) that explains method two; booting slackware from one location. The method given above by Jim shed some light on the matter, but I want to be able to do so in a win environment if possible, otherwise I am going to need to interpret how to do it from a linux environment in a win environment.... enough, I'm not going io try to sound smart. | ||
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| + | > Jeromy Boyd | ||
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| + | Hi! What do you mean by "// | ||
| + | --- //Eric (Tue Nov 18 19:46:02 UTC 2008)// | ||
