Author: Mark Johnson Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Booting from a USB device
On Wednesday 28 Apr 2010 08:40:15 Bob Dunlop wrote: >
> Perhaps simplify things. Can you use dd or similar to take a flat image
> of the SSD and put it in a file. Then configurue your virtualbox to boot
> from the file. I assume virtualbox can use filesystem images in files.
Good suggestion! I'll give that a go.
>
> Alternativly what model Eee did you have ? Maybe someone has the same
> model and might let you swap drives long enough to boot and recover the
> data.
That also sounds like good solution if the former doesn't work. I had an EeePC
900, I imagine a 901 would also do the job. Would anyone be willing to lend me
their machine at the next Southampton meeting?
