[rescue] What to do with those USB "pen" drives...

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri Aug 8 23:11:10 CDT 2003


On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 19:43:25 -0400
Al Potter <apotter at spankingnuns.com> wrote:

> > I did this in 1998 with a bootable CD and a Zip drive.  It most
> > certainly is *not* new.
> 
> OK, now I'm curious.
> 
> WHICH bootable CD, on what system, and how?
> 

All I did was create a bootable CD with some tgzs on it, a home-brew
distribution based on (I think) Slackware, and an IBM PS/2 486/DX2-50 -
though it would have worked acceptably well on a large selection of x86
boxen.

It's really rather easy to do.

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