[Server-devel] XS on Netbook

Dave Bauer dave at solutiongrove.com
Mon Oct 19 21:22:52 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Thanks.
> And can I install (easily) from a USB drive, or do I need to attach an
> external CD drive?
>

I haven;t tried it, but if you can make a bootable USB from the iso
you should be able to install from there. I use unetbootin or Fedora
LiveUSB creator for that and I have installed more traditional Linux
installs on my netbook.

Dave

> Gerald
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Has anyone installed the XS on a netbook?
>> > The big issue is that there is no optical drive, but beyond that I was
>> > wondering if that would work.
>> >
>>
>> Since you can run XS on an XO it should work fine. A little faster.
>> You'll need an external hard drive to store the user data and backups.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> > Thanks.
>> > Gerald
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Bauer
>> dave at solutiongrove.com
>> http://www.solutiongrove.com
>
>



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