In previous posts, I outlined the slug’s hardware modifications. Once I have added an internal usb thumbdrive, it was time to install Debian NSLU2 on the thumbdrive.
Installing on a usb thumbdrive was almost identical to installing on a usb harddrive. To recap, here was the reference webpage and here was my previous post on the subject. However, there was one potential problem to using a thumbdrive: the slug’s small memory. Specifically, when you use the installer’s partitioner, the slug could run out of memory during the disk formatting.
The problem symptom: during disk formatting you could loose the ssh connection to the slug. This problem, and possible solutions are described here. In my case, I plugged the thumbdrive to a PC to create and format the partitions manually; therefore, I could skip the disk formating by the slug.
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