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Subject: Re: Installation from USB pen
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>> i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting.  but i can
>> not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system image
>> loads.
> What do you mean by system image loads? Does it load kernel succesfully
> but cannot find root filesystem?

sorry.  no.  it wants the cd or ftp or ... to get the install pieces.
as it is a snapshot, there are none on net (that i can find).  but they
went onto the usb.  but i can not figure out how to tell it to get them
from there.

randy