[g4u-help] g4u on a USB memory stick

[Russ Goodwin]

Hi-

I searched high and low trying to figure out how to get my computers
to boot g4u from a USB memory stick, wasting far more time than I
care to admit.

Seeing I figured it out, and it's sooo simple to do, I want to share
the info so it's archived for anyone else with the same problem:

To put a bootable copy of g4u on a USB memory stick (aka memory key
or thumb drive) copy the file 'g4ucd.fs' from the cd or extract
g4ucd.fs from the iso image, then run 'cat g4ucd.fs > /dev/sdb',
replacing '/dev/sdb' with the actual device name of your memory stick.

Make sure the computer's bios can boot from a memory stick and fire it up.

Since the g4ucd.fs image is just under 3 MB, you don't need a big
memory stick.

Now it would be really cool if we could get g4u to save the image
onto and load it off of a memory stick (the stick I'm using is 1 GB
and my compressed drive image is only ~250 MB).

-Russ

[Iain Woolf]

Hi-
I searched high and low trying to figure out how to get my computers to
boot g4u from a USB memory stick, wasting far more time than I care to
admit.
Seeing I figured it out, and it's sooo simple to do, I want to share the
To put a bootable copy of g4u on a USB memory stick (aka memory key or
thumb drive) copy the file 'g4ucd.fs' from the cd or extract g4ucd.fs
from the iso image, then run 'cat g4ucd.fs > /dev/sdb', replacing
'/dev/sdb' with the actual device name of your memory stick.
Make sure the computer's bios can boot from a memory stick and fire it up.
Since the g4ucd.fs image is just under 3 MB, you don't need a big memory
stick.
Now it would be really cool if we could get g4u to save the image onto
and load it off of a memory stick (the stick I'm using is 1 GB and my
compressed drive image is only ~250 MB).
-Russ

Thanks for communicating that Russ. I was wondering how to do that. It
certainly helps! It now means I can keep the latest version of g4u on my
memory stick and not have to burn a CD whenever a new version comes out.

Great work!

Cheers,

Iain

[Hubert Feyrer]

To put a bootable copy of g4u on a USB memory stick (aka memory key or thumb
drive) copy the file 'g4ucd.fs' from the cd or extract g4ucd.fs from the iso
image, then run 'cat g4ucd.fs > /dev/sdb', replacing '/dev/sdb' with the
actual device name of your memory stick.

I'll update the "preparations" step of the g4u docs accordingly, thanks!


- Hubert