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Hi there, |
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I've been reading the LiveUSB docs at |
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www.gentoo.org/docs/en/liveusb.xml |
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Rather than booting a livecd from a USB stick, however, I'd like to |
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do so from a USB Hard Drive. The sensitive thing here is I just want |
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a 1GB partition on this drive as a "rescue" disk of sorts -- the |
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rest of the drive has lots of important data, which I really can't |
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lose. |
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So, if I follow the commands at the doc mentioned above, should all |
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work fine? the dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (or |
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whatever) is of particular concern, as it's a scary command to run |
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on a disk with non backed-up data on it (no, I currently have no |
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real backup of the disk - 180GB to backup is too expensive for me) |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Nick |
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P.S. Without meaning to sound like a fanboy, I started using Gentoo |
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not so long ago, and it's the best thing ever, far exceeding even |
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sliced bread. |
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