How Does one Install (to/from) USB

[Franko]

...and I can still hear wind blowing the forums...

Reckon it just goes to show how many folk actually use AROS here or have an interest in it...

[Franko]

Or how many of them have ever installed to USB

When I run AROS, I tend to run it hosted on linux. Makes for a more productive environment.

That's one of the the things I don't get about this thread, XDelusion has been looking for some answers in regard to his USB  question with only one real reply.

Now I don't know much about AROS, but if it's really so good then why don't all those who sing the praises of AROS answer him...

Heck, my good old miggies running OS3.x can use USB no problem, my advice dump the AROS and stick to OS3.x...

[Franko]

Don't be a numpty :lol: He isn't asking how to use USB, he's asking how to make a  AROS installation on a USB disk. It's a bit more involved than just writing files to it.

Still seems like AROS is cobblers to me, if no-one can give the guy a straight forward answer...

[Franko]

Goad, much? Tell you what, I want to make a bootable USB pen drive image of OS3.9 that can boot on any A1200 with a standard 3.1 kickstart / subway USB but without an OS installed on the hard drive yet. How should I proceed?

See post #5

Making bootable USB pen drives can be a pain for almost any OS.

Well I wouldn't want to even attempt to boot from a pen drive it would be way too slow compared to an HD, as for how it's done, don't ask me as I doubt it could be anyway...

You can't even boot from USB on any of the iMacs I use it needs an external firewire drive to boot from another source, thing is why would you want to boot from a USB storage device in the first place, as I say It's way slower than an HD... :confused:

[Franko]

Well, it seems to be that OS3.x must be a load of cobblers then, ask a straightforward question and can't get a sensible answer...

:p

You didn't expect a sensible answer from me did you...

I'm sorry, did you not read the guy's question? Speed don't come into it my lad!

Erm... obviously not only the bit's that interested me...

He doesn't want to use the pen drive as a substitute HD, he wants to use a bootable pen drive to boot the system and then install the OS from the pen drive to the HD. You know, like you might do with a bootable CD? Only he is using a distro too big to fit onto a CD and the machine doesn't have a DVD drive.

So why do you smartie pants AROS buffs not give him an answer then... :p

[Franko]

I'm running my A2000/060 and A3000/040 completely on USB sticks plugged into Deneb USB controllers. Works very nicely. I also, using the Icaros guide listed very early in this thread, have run and installed AROS from USB sticks. I have a Dell Mini 9 netbook with Mac OS X Snow Leopard running on its SSD and AROS running from a USB stick when I want to run that OS. It's a pretty speedy and responsive little system in either case.

Anyway, I stumbled a bit at first, as the thread starter has, trying to make it work. But following the guide to the letter will result in success.

Now that's interesting stuff there in regard to the Amigas...

The iMacs I use are the old G4 & G5 type you can boot from a firewire device but not from USB on these old models, I even got a 250Gb HD taken from the G5 hooked up via one of those USB/SATA convertors, but even with OSX 10.5.8 it tells you you can't boot via a USB device...