USB booting :: frugal vs pen - boot problems

1) what is the difference between frugal and pendrive?

2) I've tried installing frugal to /dev/sda1. when booting, lilo hangs when I select to boot from the usb drive. Any particular reason it would do that?

3) I also tried installing via pendrive, then I get this error:

Setting up system image on /mnt/sda1
cp: cannot stat `/cdrom/linux24': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/cdrom/minirt24.gz': No such file or directory
Setting up lilo
Fatal: open /boot/linux24: No such file or directory
Installation complete.

ideas?

This is all using version 4.0

I modified /usr/sbin/frugal_lilo.sh

by adding BOOT="/cdrom/boot/isolinux/"

and that got rid of the errors in step 3.

now to see if it works...

on closer inspection I should only ever do option "L"

but anyway, with grub install, it says invalid operating system when trying to boot, and with Lilo, it hangs with just an "L" on the screen.

Frugal is for hard drive partitons, neither grub or lilo would support pendrive.
pendrive_usbhdd.sh is for pendrives which support usbhdd. This makes two partition the larger of which is vfat, shareable with Windows, and preconfigured with a proper mydsl folder. Do nut use if you have a SATA drive installed as sda.

There are many ways to install on pendrive. The included pendrive install script only support grub and usbhdd.

FYI: You can boot DSL with the install menu
boot: install

If you decide to manually or use other installation type then be aware of the mydsl folder permission requirements. And the size limitations of some boot loaders.

For me, due to the large number of options available to boot from usb sticks, it is perhaps better to do it manually.

If you boot from cd, it is relatively easy (using posts in this formum or the wiki) to format a usb stick (fat16, fat32 or ext2), install the loader (syslinux or extlinux), unpack the iso and copy the necessary files to usb.

I've been using freeware ext2 drivers on a couple of windows pc's to read ext2 partitions for about a year now without problems - even the workaround to read multiple usb stick partitions (fat16, fat32 or ext2) in windows is not that difficult.

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