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Title: BootAble 6.2
Post by: BigWarpGuy on 2009.03.14, 00:17:01
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QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 10 March 2009


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Could the maintenance partition be on an USB drive?  Could it be a way to boot or install from an USB drive?  ???
Title: Re: BootAble 6.2
Post by: DougB on 2009.03.14, 03:29:53
Theoretically, you should be able to boot from a USB drive. In practice, it seems that it depends, a lot, on the BIOS support for legacy USB, and whether the system will actually boot from such a device.

I have tried, a couple of times, with no success, but the problems point to defective BIOS support for doing such a thing.

It should be possible to boot from a USB CD drive, using the same methods used by the eCS 2.0 RC6a (perhaps also RC5??) installer, and described in the latest instructions for the eeePC (it is at HOBBES).
Title: Re: BootAble 6.2
Post by: Ben on 2009.03.14, 22:30:02
The DFSee mailing list has had a number of threads on this very subject, (booting/using USB drives), over the years.

I would suggest that you join it and peruse it.

The particulars of this are on the DFSee web site, in general and on the support (http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/support.php) page in particular.

I hope this helps you.