On 13/09/09 17:26, Adrian Fisher wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no > CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on > it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of > installing software manually, other than the few packages Asus saw fit > to make available for it. To this end I will need to boot from a USB > flash drive, is this done any differently than with a CD/DVD drive? How > do I install the image to this device? > > Thanks in advance. > > A.
Ubuntu has a very easy utility in Jaunty (9.04). Get any bootable iso (you could try the LFS live CD but I am not sure if it's h/w detection will support newer machines), then select System->Administration->USB Startup Disk Creator It will create a bootable USB stick from your iso. HTH Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
