USB booting :: help on usb drive



Well if you have some more space, you could make another partition or else you'll have to modify your existing setup.

Or you could try loading Linux fs utilities/drivers on Windows (I assume you're using ext2?)
Well, I want to use it on several pc's, without installing fs-drivers.

The problem is that Windows only sees the first partition. Which is a 50meg Fat16 partition on which DSL is installed. I've tried to make it a larger partition (100meg) and copy all the files of a fresh DSL install to the partition. I get an error while booting, but after pressing the Enter key, DSL does boot. Only problem, when I looked at the drive under Windows, it was 50megs again :S
if your usbdrive is less than 2gb, you can try swapping the two partitions;
http://petepr.hopto.org/dsl/guides.html#Boot_Pen_Swap


EDIT: I think maybe there isn't a 2GB limit, but the max.no of cylinders (1024).
You can adjust the geometry by using the standard guide: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....endrive
Ah, very nice. That seems to solve my problem. Think it's gonna work. Thanks alot :)

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