7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

[Ian Smith]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
 > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote:
 > > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases.
 > > The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't
 > > get MFCed to stable/7.  Even if it was we're already something of a
 > > heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and DVD) so my plan all
 > > along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the
 > > same time drop CDs-with-packages.
 > 
 > FWIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how 
 > to read the install off a DOS device :)

Still to figure out how your method - using Luigi's syslinux boot off a 
FAT slice on a stick - works when 7's sysinstall can't see USB disks?

cheers, Ian