USB booting :: 3 Questions



Try posting your edited config file here in a "Code" block.

Maybe someone can figure out what is wrong.
Hmmm, can't you mount the pendrive and edit syslinux.cfg through beaver?

2) You don't have to untar - just copy the .dsl or .tar.gz or .uci file onto the pendrive.
Code Sample

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
TIMEOUT 300

PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL dsl
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL knoppix-txt
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic BOOT_IMAGE=expert frugal
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=794 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt24.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux24
APPEND
(line of #'s, removed to not break tables)


Whatever is iin the file doesn't make a difference cause if I go cp syslinux.cfg syslinux.cfg.backup;rm syslinux.cfg;mv syslinux.cfg.backup syslinux.cfg it screws up as well

and for #2 I meant is there a way(which would be handy for alsa) where it would just install with no intervention? So I don't have to install from menu?
ALSA will install automatically if the alsadebs package is saved to the root directory (/) of the storage device that is used for booting.

However, you will still need to specify the dsl alsa boot command, which requires editing the APPEND line directly below the DEFAULT line in your syslinux.cfg file

I do not understand why your syslinux.cfg file is corrupted every time that you move or copy the file.  This makes no sense to me.
cool I got it all working now(cept haven't done a deb2dsl yet, will do soon though)
thanks alot :D
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