Installation from USB pen

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Randy Bush wrote:
> i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting.  but i
> can not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system
> image loads.
>
> do i have to back off to 7 and then upgrade forward after install?

I don't believe you can install from UFS unless you mount it first and 
then tell it to do an FS install.

I have a 7.x based USB installer that is split in 2 - half FAT32 half 
UFS and it works.

Having half FAT32 is handy if you need to edit/add stuff from Windows. 
It does make it a PITA to build the install key though.

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