On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 00:08 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > Also please pardon me asking, but why would you want this? It sounds > > like a crackpot idea to me. Do you want to have something like > Fedoppix > > on a USB flash key? I am very interested to know what is the > intended > > application of such install. > > Well, per se there is nothing wrong with disks in external enclosures, > is there? Assume I'd like to install FC on an Mac Mini, using an > external > large disk (be it USB or FireWire) for the Linux install and keeping > the internal disk for OSX? Or if someone has time and is inclined to, take a gander at the patches YDL did, so that they got YDL4 booting off a Firewire-based iPod So while you're not getting a LiveCD, most "new" machines have options to boot off USB (x86), and you've got Macs that most certainly boot off Firewire (and USB), so maybe there's some future/interest in such a project -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
