Talk:HOWTO LiveUSB

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[edit] Ebuilds

From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:12:32 -0500
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

The only thing I could add is to mention the ebuilds for the
tools you used.  That said, it works for me.

There's only one of them -- sys-boot/syslinux. -Jsnx 18:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Oops, there was one more (that was not a really common one). -Jsnx 18:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Filesystem

I am wondering, if this should really advise you to use ext3. A flash drive has only a finite number of writes -- which generally is not a problem, but a journaling filesystem (such that ext3 is) significantly increases the number of writes to the drive. Much like the Asus EEE PC, which uses ext2 for this reason, I would imagine ext2 is the best choice. Ieatlint 06:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bootloader

I was trying this with the live-cd from version 2008.0 beta. And then it is not working from Add The Bootloader I do only see GRUB as bootloader on the CD-image.