USB booting :: Convert ISO to USB Install Question



I had assumed that the file would be /home/dsl/.mtoolsrc - you can write to this location once you have booted from cd since it is on ramdisk.

In order to use the right-click menu to make a bootable USB stick, the stick should not be mounted.
Worked very nicely thanks for the great help.  Have to still see if the USB pendrive made from the Live CD version dsl version 3.4 will boot off my Latitude D820.

Boots off an HP pc fine and my other pc as well.

Last question.  I have an option to install grub as well.  AM I  suppose to install grub first before I do the DSL install to USB from the Live CD or the other way around?  Does it matter which is done first?

Sorry about the questions
If you're booting from a USB stick you don't need to install grub unless you're planning to do something out of the ordinary...
OK everything works 100% including on my Dell D820 but I had to put the initrd version of the knoppix image because it still cannot find the knoppix image.  This is only the case with the Dell D820.

I have to put in a seperate post.  I was told I could just follow the Wiki Doc's to make the DSL on a USB stick 1-4GB and it works also on all the PC except the Dell D820.  SO I was told to put the image file of Knoppix the initrd version about 50MB and replace it with the other file.  Well I can tell you that does not work  on any PC.

See this post:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=18819

Here is the error message I get on All PC's

EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_read_inode: unable to readd inode block - inode=3937, block=16387
Attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00 rw=0, want=22033, limit=4096 and it sais that a few more times only difference is want=22034, 22035 and 22036.
VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 so I give up on putting LABEL there.  The it sais please append a correct "root=" boot option.  


That error sounds to me as though its telling me the USB stick has a FS unknown or cannot read a larger USB stick 4GB.

What do you think?  I might want to repost that error.  Is there a Wiki DOc on how to install the initrd 50MB version for people who have problems with the Media reading the knoppix file?

original here.