I just bought a new green server (25-30 watts at full load!) and wanted a brand-new Jaunty experience.
The MSI Wind Nettop doesn’t come with an optical disk drive, nor does it come with IDE support, so my old CDROM drives wouldn’t work — I needed to boot from an old 1gb USB drive.
I found usb-creator was already available on my to-be-decommissioned Ubuntu Gutsy box, but it won’t work unless you clear off enough free space beforehand. I ended up repartitioning my USB drive with cfdisk, then running mkfs against the new partition, then restarting usb-creator.
The actual installation was quite smooth and quick. Thanks to the development team!
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