Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > >> [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > >> > >> This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers > >> with floppy drives in them. > > > > OK. Why isn't there a grub-stick package to dd onto a UBS stick? > > Excellent question. The Ubuntu LiveCD is adequate to the task, > though. (I tried the "standard" Lenny LiveCD, but after searching > for my CD drive on sda, it turned my screen a weird pixelated grey.)
I can recommend unetbootin (google). I needed to get a few things (all available in etch) for it to install correctly, but I've since burned Zenwalk to a usb key and it boots into the installer. I'm getting ZW live iso now to see if it goes further (a running desktop). unetbootin supplies a .deb, which once installed burns a url or an on-disk iso to the key then makes it bootable. Pretty slick, and real simple to use. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
