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install Groovy Linux 32-bit to USB pen - possible?

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maiki:
Can you briefly tell me what is needed to set the size of those partitions right? To get full installation. I am pretty sure 4 GBs is well enough for my needs.

maiki:
I ran that installation again and then launched Partition manager to see what has been created:

sda1 - boot - primary - Linux ext2 - /GABoot - 110.22 MB
sda2 - - primary - Linux swap/Solaris - 527.46 MB
sda3 - primary - Linux ext3 - /GA - 3369.44 MB

3369.44 MBs not enough for installation? I am stuck now. Packing the PC back into the wardrobe till somebody comes to help me.

edit: And I will probably get another 8 GB pen drive just for the sake of it...

Ansa89:
As last resort you can "cp" the whole live system:
- you need a pre-partitioned pendrive
- start GroovyArcade
- insert the pendrive
- switch to a tty
- mount the pendrive partition you will use as "/"
- as root "cp -a bin boot etc home lib opt root sbin srv usr var /path/to/pendrive"
- "cd /path/to/pendrive"
- as root "mkdir dev media mnt proc sys tmp"
- as root "grub-install --root-directory=/path/to/pendrive --recheck /dev/pendrive_device" (NOTE: "/dev/pendrive_device" should be "/dev/sda" or "/dev/sdb" or something like that, depending on your system)

NOTE: with this method you don't need a separated "/boot" partition.

If gparted-live fails, you can try with partedmagic (another live distro intended for easy partition).

maiki:
Thank you for your post. But will I get anything by doing those things? If the only thing that I get is that I do not need the boot partition it will not solve the "no space left on device" errors because the boot partition was only 110 MB, and it was installing into partition with more than 3300 MBs.

I am wondering why this system needs so much space, considering you can put the whole DOS with Advance MAME onto a 128 MB pen drive (my experience from past). There has to be dozens of things that can be deleted from this system. Too bad I am not a Linux guru. But I expected this situation. I always face troubles when trying to touch Linux.

Ansa89:
The main problem is that you need some experience.
The start point should be installing ubuntu on a pc with a normal 31KHz monitor; when you get some confidence with that and know how to compile/recompile software (including linux kernel), how to apply patches and so on, then you can think to try linux on a cabinet.

BTW, you can also try to use unetbootin to install AGES on a pendrive.

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