Boot from pendrive

yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing a
OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS,
need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boo
from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks

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Ilamparithi

Ilamparithi <> wrote:

>
>yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
>OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
>need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
>from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.

The 20 cents a DVD costs is prohibitive?

First, your computer must support booting from a flash memory device - most
newer systems do. Second, the image you want to transfer to the flash
memory device must support using this kind of device instead of a CD/DVD -
that's the hard part since most image files are stored with information and
boot files for a CD/DVD device.

"Ilamparithi" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
> OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
> need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
> from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.
>
>
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> Ilamparithi

http://www.askvg.com/a-bootable-usb-...er-2008-and-7/

Ilamparithi wrote:
> yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
> OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
> need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
> from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.
>
>

USB will be alot slower. I have the same issue, use a DVD-RW disc...

"Ilamparithi" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
> OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
> need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
> from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.
>
>
> --
> Ilamparithi

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:35:43 -0500, Ilamparithi wrote:

> yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
> OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
> need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
> from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.

1) you should be able to install to a virtual machine with nothing more
than the ISO disk image.

2) I did precisely that with a Debian install on my wife's eeepc netbook
using the info from the Debian eeepc wiki.

Hank J. wrote:
> Ilamparithi <> wrote:
>
>> yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
>> OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
>> need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
>>from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.
>
> The 20 cents a DVD costs is prohibitive?

If you mail me a self addressed, stamped envelope, I will mail you a 20 cent DVD.

Bill Yanaire wrote:
> Hank J. wrote:
>> Ilamparithi <> wrote:
>>
>>> yeah i am really fed up with burning an image to a DVD and installing an
>>> OS. each time they come up with a new flavour of OS or different OS, i
>>> need to waste a DVD to intall the OS. can if any one tell me how to boot
>>> from a pendrive and install OS. it would be helpful.. thanks.
>>
>> The 20 cents a DVD costs is prohibitive?
>
> If you mail me a self addressed, stamped envelope, I will mail you a 20
> cent DVD.
>

Oops. Replied to the wrong person. Sorry. I meant to reply to Ilamparithi.