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Topic: a little twist on usb install, choosing install to hard drive

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v_lestat

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Posted: May 28 2005,05:13

i did but i have never used grub before, except during linux install and a few times afterwards to adjust it,,dsl grub is like raw grub as in just download it and install it , its not used the same.
when i ran it from a command line it wanted command perameters and i looked thru them and i have no idea what to do.

what im wondering is there a way to tell the installer to use grub instead of lilo or how to use grub after lilo fails

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Posted: May 28 2005,22:10

my limited linux knowledge has pretty much got me to giving up on installing to usb as a hard drive. so :\
there has to be a way its just not working.
lilo keeps failing even though it says its successfully installed.

the only reason i know of is that its mounting the thumb drive as a hard drive and calling it that in the lilo config.
there for when it boots its looking for hda or something and not sda

ill mess around with lilo a bit more to see if i cant change the config line to sda0,1 or something but i dont think its gunna work

im just not a fan of compressed image mounting. it restricts things so much.

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Posted: May 29 2005,00:21

Wait...

You did a hd install to a usb flashdrive?

You know that your flashdrive will die after just a few hours of use, right?

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Posted: May 29 2005,03:12

lol no thats not true.
flash drive read/write has a life span much longer than that.

not to mention i do dsl toram alot

basically its more or less a proof of concept incase i wanted ot install it to a usb hard drive. as a hard drive install not a pendrive install.

it cant be done simply because its looking for hda or hdc or hd something.. and its on sda or sdb or similar so it cant...

adjusting the lilo config i havent gotten around to do yet so...

if they die THAT quickly then a pendrive instlal would kill it just as fast.
when mounting an image unless you do "toram" its still constantly accessing the pendrive which is no more different than accessing raw files on the pen drive.

pendrives life span is alot longer than nyou believe. if yours dies quickly then i guarentee you that it was a fualty pendrive.

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