USB booting :: pressed for time question

I'm planning on buying a laptop within the year and noticed the webpage associated with this forum and noticed the bootable USB device mentioned, so I thought I could try and make one myself with a Sandisk 512 MB device....especially since it seems better than just trying to ask whoever I buy one from and be told some possibly pro-Windows crap about "If we or you put an empty partition on your unit, then the unit can't be covered by warranty...." So I would want to try a way to boot into Hikarunix 0.2 and be able to save my settings and being able to boot into Hikarunix without having to leave Windows is a bonus too.

So I'm having problems figuring out the whole Qemu thing, I tried several ways to do it so that I could boot Hikarunix up from the USB while Windows XP is still active, including copying directly from the Live CD and then installing Qemu but it wouldn't boot...tried the Qemu menu thing and tried figuring it out, starting to understand it but I couldn't do any image to boot from, it just won't do at all.

I tried doing my own image, I even tried pointing to the boot image at F:\KNOPPIX\boot.img and the line that says ISO/CD specifies "(-cdrom "F:\KNOPPIX\boot.img" -boot d)"

When I attempt to boot Qemu using boot.img I get....

qemu.exe -L "\Qemu\bios" -m 128 -hda "F:\Qemu\boot.img" -cdrom "F:\KNOPPIX\boot.img" -boot d -enable-audio -localtime
qemu.exe: invalid option -- '-enable-audio'

bump (taking a chance on if bumping a topic is allowed)

You may want to just start with a full DSL embedded install. That will put all of the files on the USB in the proper order to start with. The whole OS is only 50 MB anyway. Then you can remove what you don't need and rewrite the boot scripts for whatever else it is that you are trying to do.

I have qemu installed on my Windows XP box and was able to run the Hikarunix iso image using the following command line:

qemu.exe -L "\Program Files\Qemu\bios" -m 500 -hda hardisk.img -cdrom hikarunix-0.4.iso -boot d -enable-audio -localtime

I created my own hardisk image using qemu and Qemu was installed at C:\Program Files\Qemu but it should be possible to move this over to a USB drive and call it up. The above command line was used with Qemu 0.7.2 so if you have a later version (0.8.0) you will need to replace "-enable-audio" with "-soundhw sb16"

Hope this helps,

desNotes

Quote (desnotes @ Mar. 30 2006,09:06)

what changes do I need to make to that line to boot it off the USB?

For some odd reason when I tried to move the install off the HD it said that my 512 MB stick isn't big enough but I was able to run the installer and install it straight on there and am going through the menu trying to configure the way you did that one line...

but it looks like you're tellimg me not to run the Qemu menu program and just go to the command line and type that line in?

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