Hi,
As i usually install software via USB stick i wonder, will RaspberryPI also install when bootable USB stick is inserted into the USB slot?
E.g. can i bypass in this manner the creation of the bootable SD card.
And just have the install process of the image do the job for me, just like an average installation on a disk. In this case it will be a SD card.
Thanks for sharing.
David Gibson wrote:
I think that the point of being able to boot from a USB device is that it gives the option of installing other operating systems to experiment with, which could install AND run from the USB device so it gets around the space limitations of the SD card.
What space limitation is that? SD-cards can be large enough to hold multiple OS's.
The RP-PI has been known to work with SD-Cards with at least 16GB (the Dane-Elec 16Gb class 4) but probably larger cards will also work, (as long as they do not use class 10). See R-PI wiki at http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals
A typical Linux distro will take about 2GB, so eight of them will fit on a 16Gb card.
It probably won't be long after the R-PI becomes available to the larger public before someone writes a "boot manager", so you can pick which OS (or application) you want to boot from the SD-card.
For me one of the charms of the R-PI is that you can pick and choose an SD-Card, put it in the R-PI, and it will transform the R-PI into the device of your choice. It also harks back to the time of the Amiga 500 (or pick any other home computer) when depending on which floppy (or cartridge) you used you could start some application or Game.
When the R-PI comes in the hands of eager kids, I can see a new activity during school breaks, swapping SD-Cards. 
