Myrosia Dzikovska said the following on 11/29/2010 07:30 AM:
Ah, maybe I should have been more specific. I know about the network boot, running over NFS, etc. It is a bit of hassle to set up, and I don't want to wipe out my hard drive just yet (it's just 4G, so I am not going to get two systems on it in parallel). I would much prefer to get a LiveUSB to work first, before kill off the Xandros on it. Hence the question about making it work with the LiveUSB.
Well I think you missed a lot. I didn't find it hassle to set up; I just copy-pasted and changed a few IP addresses. I understand the idea of not wiping out the disk. That is how I'm running. I can run a number of different kernels on that old laptop; I started this because that old laptop won't boot from my USB stick; the BIOS is too old. The LiveCD runs in memory; the PXE works the same way. You can do what you are trying to ACHIEVE using PXE. Stop focusing on the USB - its as irrelevant to this as the CD. I repeat: with PXE I'm running (more than one version of) Linux on that laptop since I can't get it to boot from the USB, all without affecting the hard disk. I suppose I could set up swap on the hard disk but that's another matter and not in the scope of this discussion. I repeat: setting up the PE server wasn't a problem. I just followed the instructions. If you are really picky, there are PE servers that can run as VMs. So on a single host without having dhcp+tftp installed, you can do a PXE boot inside your VM ;) Finally, if you read the Syslinux documentation you will find there is an option there for installing the boot mechanism of ISOLinux on other media - like a USB stick. I haven't done this myself, but if you are so inflexible as to not let go of the USB idea, you might want to investigate this option. Personally I'm delighted with the network boot. When the time comes to upgrade my other machines, including this 17" laptop which I'm using to compose this message, to 11.4, I'm going to do it with the PXEserver. I expect it to be less hassle that the rigmarole I went through with the 11.0 -> 11.1 and 11.1 -> 11.2 and 11.2-> 11.3 -- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. --Mark Twain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org