[Devil-Linux-discuss] Install on USB, how to

Hi,

First of all thank you very much on great software! I been using Devil-Linux for 10 years in our company.
I use strongswan for dozens of ipsec tunnel and shorewall firewall.
Novadays we had some problems that local network card stalled and only reboot helps, changed all hardware same problem.

I suspect some driver problem dunno. Its 1.6.8 64 bit version

Anyway we need to reboot often. So from CD its slow, I decided to got for USB boot and upgrade to 1.6.9.

Here is how I finally was able to install it on 8GB USB stick with two partitions (one for system, one for config).
Using the provided install_on_usb script


  1.  Use linux 64bit (32bit does not work for 64bit DL), windows cant copy certain filenames
  2.  (I used a virtualbox Ubuntu 64bit on Windows Laptop)
3.  put usb stick to computer, assign usb stick to virtual machine, remember to install both vbox extension and vbox guest additions
3.  use umount on terminal (dont use "filemanager" to eject) if stick gets automounted on Linux
2.  use fdisk to make two partitions W95 fat32 type
3.  make first partition DOS bootable
4.  unmount them before install on usb in terminal
5.  start install_on_usb, write device names (defaults dont work with enter), choose syslinux
6.  dont choose format or partition devices, msdos format does not work (parameters not correct)
7.  copy possible previous etc_mods settings file to second partition