I'm alway trying new distrubutions or updating with a frash install. CD and DVD'd are cheap but I have a small room filled with them. USB Flash installs 10 times faster (depends on your system and usb flash drive) as CD or DVD. And most important is our environment, thoses old cds and dvd's will be recyled but some I'm sure will end up in the dump. Enough, read below to setup your flash drive, I've tried alot of different ways, this is the best..good luck. Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting To prepare the USB stick, you will need a system where GNU/Linux is already running and where USB is supported. You should ensure that the usb-storage kernel module is loaded (modprobe usb-storage) and try to find out which SCSI device the USB stick has been mapped to (in this example /dev/sda is used). To write to your stick, you may have to turn off its write protection switch. Note that the USB stick should be at least 8 MB in size. If you follow the section called “...
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