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USB Boot Installation

Many of us are familiar to the term Live CD, a common term during Linux installations. Being a System Administrator for past 2 years at CRAVE, a problem which I regularly came across was the need for a CD-ROM during installation process. Now this is absolutely fine when we install distro on a PC or so, but when you are talking about 20-30 PCs this becomes a pain especially if the PCs aforementioned are without CD-ROMs.

As I was thinking of possible solutions like 'network boot', it struck me that 'USB boot' is also a possible solution. Though 'USB boot' is not very popular among Linux users, at least now. Currently 'USB boot' is in its early stages. At CRAVE we tried 'USB boot' about 7-8 months ago, the result was we could not get pass the initial loading screen. Making 'USB boot' work involves a lot of tweaking.

I believe it is high time that Linux distros start working towards this, the floppy disks have already vanished paving way for USB disk. The good news is that at least Ubuntu have seriously started working at this http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16/. I will put more info on this in next post.
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