In message <20040812210412.21996.qmail@rfhpc8319.fh-regensburg.de>, Hubert Feyr
er writes:
>In article <20040812131005.82A9C1AE76@berkshire.research.att.com> you wrote:
>> How about using a USB flash disk?  Mount it from the installation shell 
>> and redirect the output to it.
>
>While at that...
>I've never played with a USB flash disk/memory stick, but assuming BIOS 
>supports booting from it, how do you set up such a device so it can boot 
>either a floppy image or cdrom iso? (Someone asked me how to put g4u on a 
>USB memory stick, and I'm clueless)
>
>

That's not what I meant.  I meant "boot from the installation CD, then 
run dmesg and send its output to a flash drive as an export vehicle".



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