[ale] Installing Arch Linux on USB drive

[Marc Ferguson]

That's pretty cool >> CD to USB. How does it perform after a couple of live
boots? I did the LiveUSB thing with Ubuntu, but saw significant instability
after multiple use. I realized that if I made the LiveUSB read-only then it
works fine no matter how many times I use it on my laptop.


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> I finally did this by burning an iso image on to a cd and then install
> from that to a USB drive.  It worked well.
>
> Erik:  I had used UUID but for some reason the USB-LIVE-STICK(2GB) as
> install source is not well accepted by the target USB drive (15GB).
> Install goes well but thats about it.
>
> -Narahari
>
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Erik Mathis <erik at mathists.com> wrote:
>
>> You might want to try mounting by-uuid instead of by-disk
>>
>>
>> -Erik-
>>
>>
>> On 12/25/2012 02:50 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>>
>>  Friends:
>>
>> Merry Christmas to all.  For those who had a good meal and browsing thru
>> ALE mailing list, sorry to disturb you.
>>
>> I need help.
>>
>> I am trying to install Arch Linux on a USB drive from a Live USB stick.
>>  The install moves fine and I follow the standard Arch install but pointing
>> to the USB drive as the target.
>>
>> However, once the install is complete and I halt the machine and then I
>> unplug the Live USB stick, then start the box I receive the
>> /dev/by-disk/...... error.
>>
>> I have the syslinux boot loader and I have not tried grub.  Any help is
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Narahari
>>
>>
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