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HOWTO install CRUX via USB Pendrive

Author: Jose V Beneyto

Requeriments:

• get the usbdisk scripts from here
• get the CRUX iso from here
• usbdisk media >= 276MB and a BIOS with usb boot support properly configured
• syslinux, mtools and dosfstools installed in your system

Generating the USB Pendrive:

1 - First, you need to build the image by executing the make_usbdisk script like this:

 $ sudo ./make_usbdisk crux-2.5.iso

2 - Then create the installation media with the image you built:

 $ sudo dd if=crux-2.5.usbdisk.img of=/dev/XXX

• where XXX is your usbdisk device
• you shouldn't use a normal partition with the stick, just use /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. instead of /dev/sda1, ...

NOTES

If you experienced some problems with other scripts and they are related to the fake cdrom environment, just you should change the crux_dir variable in those scripts (/cdrom/crux is the default). Or you can create a symlink to the cdrom path doing something like:

 $ ln -sf usbdisk /cdrom