dd question

[eculbert]

Rereading the orginal question and 'interpreting' it I
think you are wanting to run from a 'hard drive' which
happens to be the stick as a live cd? 

IF so, there used to be a 'poorman's install' way of
doing that. IT still required the cdrom for a few
seconds at bootup, then ran off a partition.

IS that what you wanted? 

IF so, look/search for the current way to 'poor man's
install' to a partition in this case the usb device.

I might be wrong. A usb device is not that good of a
hd to read/write to tho. short reuse life...1k times
or so, and one of the directions is slow.

Why not slice off a 4 gig partition and do a poor
man's there on your much faster hd? Still you need the
cd for the first few seconds plus at 'boot:' you need
to enter fromhd=scan or fromhd=/dev/hdaX where X is
the part it is on! Then the cdrom is freed up.

Guess 5.0 still does that. 

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