[Xastir] New tricks for Linux / XASTIR was: knoppix qemu

[Wes Johnston]

I just purchased a 1gig san disc mini cruiser on sale for $60 hoping it would
boot... it does not even though my motherboard(s) support USB booting in
several flavors.  Come to find out, not all USB flash drives are the same, and
you must be certain before purchase they will boot... there is one called Jet
Drive that does boot.  I have a USB 2.5" laptop HDD enclosure and have never
tried to boot off of it though... I suspect it will boot.

Wes



Quoting John Kraus <jfkraus3 at cox.net>:

> OOPs
>
> I sent this to Curt rather than the list so here it is.
>
> Actually what I would like to see is a set of either boot floppies and / or
> cdrom that does nothing more than make a default USB access drive as ROOT
> with the kernel running in a separate RAMDISK.
>
> With a boot disk in hand and a USB 2.0 external drive you would be good to
> go with an easily modified system.
>
> While the speed would not be up to the level of an internal drive it should
> be usable.
>
> Even if you did not run from the USB drive it would be a handy device to
> install from.
>
> ===========
> Curt noted that a write issue could exist with a flash based device. Below
> is a clarification.
> ===========
>
> I was thinking of the actual USB hard drives.  I have a 40 GB firefly that
> can run from most ports as is but has an included PS2 cable with feed
> through that can grab power form the PS2 port.
>
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