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netstrider

Member

Registered: 2009-02-16

Posts: 2

Arch on USB

Hello everyone,

I'm going to install Arch later today when I get back from College. Is it possible after I've created my ideal system to put that to a bootable USB (LiveUSB)?

I want to create a basic "rescue disk" on USB with certain packages pre-installed.

Thanks

ninjaprawn

Member

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: Arch on USB

yes, completely, but u will need to install a bootloader on the usb mbr, and set it to bootable (gparted). i have been looking at this, but i only have a 128meg pen so it would require a lot of chopping!

i used unetbootin (aur) which can install and set the usb up fully to run any distro almost! very simple to use. i stuck slitaz on my pen cos it only takes up ~30meg!

bear in mind tho, most truly live distros load everything to ram. if u do what u r trying to do, it will be pretty slow as read/right to usb (~12mb/s)  is massively slower than ide hard drive (~300mb/s)!

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2009-02-18 21:31:52)

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