USB booting :: Missing Operating System

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mkdosfs -I /dev/sda

(it's a capital "i")
Then I copied the distro on the stick and did:

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syslinux /dev/sda

Maybe you've got to change minirt24.gz. I had to replace all sda1 through sda in .linuxrc.

Hi fez,
thanx for this Thread, my USB-Stick works with HP nx7010 after a Bios update and your help

But did your wireless Card works or did you know how i can install it?

Sorry for my bad english, iam from german and i read more than iam write.

greetings Tyr

What wlan have you got?
pcmcia, usb, centrino-wlan? Chip (e.g. prism2, atheros)?

Didn't try to run centrino-wlan on my working machine. But at home it works properly (usb-wlan, Netgear MA111(prism2-chip)) with my crappy Elitegroup Desknote:
- I go to /etc/wlan change wlancfg-DEFAULT to wlancfg-<mySSID>
- add my SSID in wlan.conf
- set up resolv.conf with the correct ip (access point IP)
- start a script that I made to get my wlan finally started:

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#!/bin/sh
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=<mySSID> authtype=opensystem
ifconfig wlan0 <computer's IP> netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast <IP>
route add default gw <access point IP>

This script regards connections without WEP (don't think my granny neighbours gonna wardive my wifi or some kids gonna cruise through our hillbilly village

). But I'm also too lazy to set up with WEP, which doesn't protect anyway.

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iam from germany

So we got more in common :;):

I try to use the centrino card in the notebook, don´t have any other and don´t wont any other.

iam found this ipw2200.sourceforge.net and now i dont belive that any current live-cd works with my card and will try to create my own distribution based on DSL with driver inside. :lol: it´s a choke, don´t know how to do this, but its a great idea

original here.