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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,19:51 QUOTE
I am in most respects new to this so forgive my ignorance with this question.

Instead of these step by step instructions to make a bootable USB flash memory with DSL, why not just ghost or image a successful DSL installation and provide access to the image?  Someone like me could then hopefully in one step mount that image to my USB flash memory.

Wondering??

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Posted: Feb. 19 2005,18:20 QUOTE
Not everyone has the same size USB flash device.
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Posted: Feb. 19 2005,19:11 QUOTE
Yes, but a zipped install of the USB setup, with USB drivers
 available, like the boot disk.
Then you`d download, unzip, & copy it to the USB.
Then syslinux the USB to make it bootable.
That way you don`t have to burn a CD your not going to use.
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Posted: Feb. 19 2005,19:58 QUOTE
Your description is close to the existing "5-way" download from the DSL web site.
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Posted: Feb. 19 2005,23:17 QUOTE
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Then you`d download, unzip, & copy it to the USB.
Then syslinux the USB to make it bootable.
That way you don`t have to burn a CD your not going to use.


The file that you are lookiing for is dsl-embedded.zip

The 5-way.tar.gz are the tools necessary for setup in Linux.

So download the dsl-embedded.zip, unzip & copy to USB
Then syslinux the USB and away you go!
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