Hi, last version of Knoppix ( www.knopper.net ) have the Option - after starting from DVD - to install on an SD-card. Perhaps this may solve your problem
best regards and a nice day klaus Am Sonntag, den 30.05.2010, 23:43 -0700 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > > From: Mark Allums <m...@allums.com> > > > > On 5/30/2010 5:46 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > My wife has an early eeepc with a 4GB SSD running Xandros. > She > > would like to change the OS so that she can install other > software easily. > > I have a newer eeepc with a 160GB HD that > came with the OS that must > > not be named and now also has Eeebuntu 3.0. > > > > > Now, I have a 4 GB SD card that I > want to install Lenny > > on, just like the installation to my hard drive. That way, my wife can try > > it out on her eeepc WITHOUT > MAKING ANY CHANGES TO HER HD. I have gone > > through the install, but can not boot from it. I am 99% certain that it is > > just a > case of getting grub properly installed on the SD card. From MY pc, > > how do I install grub on the SD card to that Lenny can boot directly > from the SD > > card (on my box, or my wife's) without affecting > the booting of my machine, or > > needing to change anything on my > wife's machine? > > > > > Can anyone help me with > > this? > > > > > > Marc Shapiro > > > > Off the top of my head, you will > need a boot loader installed on the main drive > > that can see the SD card. My Eee PC can't boot off of the SD card. It may > > be that other models, possibly yours, can, but mine can't. > > If you hold down the escape key while booting you get the option to boot from > the hard drive, or the SD card reader. > > > > If I were doing it, I might look for an 8 GB or even 16 GB SD card. > > The plan is, if she likes it, to install onto her SSD in place of the > original Xandros installation. Since it is only 4 GB I wanted a card of the > same size to make sure that we could fit the OS, software and data into that > amount of space. > > > You might also > consider a bootable USB flash drive. Much easier to boot > > off of USB than SD. > > For testing purposes, that may be true, but I would still need to get grub > installed so that it can boot without affecting my wife's current > installation and booting process. She doesn't want any changes to her > current system until she has tested the new system for herself. > > > -- > > Marc Shapiro > mshapiro...@yahoo.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1275294963.5838.2.ca...@linuxwolf-mobil
