Guest ajevans Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 Greetings, Now that USB storage capacities are so large, can we install Mandrakemove on the USB storage and ditch the CDROM ? If it Mandrakemove can be used with only a pocket USB device it would be so much move portable. Thanks, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desire Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 It would be possible...but two things would have to happen. 1) You would have to get a USB key stick of 1GB, Reason: MandrakeMove ISO is 616MB and I've noticed that USB keys size increments are doubled (i.e. they go from 64MB>128MB>256MB>512MB>1024MB). 2) Your host computers would have to have the ability to boot up from USB, I'm not sure how long ago BIOSes came out with that ability (I could be wrong but I think laptops have been able to do it for a while now. as for a desktop I would think you would need a fairly new system to that or a BIOS update) As the saying goes "Anything is possible" but for practicallity I would just stick with a CD. USB keys aren't terribly cheap 1GB sells for $199CDN and 512MB is around $140CDN. Another option would to do a "remaster" of a live CD and bring down the size but you would have to cut out apps and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 I think your biggest hang-up is going to be getting the pc to boot from usb, as many of them will NOT do that. If you only want it to work on one system, then that's easy, well, it's easy if it will boot usb. But you're going to lose a lot of the portability of mandrakeu move, and after all, isn't portability the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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