[Server-devel] XS on Netbook

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 19 22:08:09 EDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 21:22 -0400, Dave Bauer wrote:
> 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
> 
We wrote a tool for that:

http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-livecd/tree/util/mkusbinstall

Jerry

> > 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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> >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dave Bauer
> >> dave at solutiongrove.com
> >> http://www.solutiongrove.com
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 



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