USB booting :: New Updated Install to Pendrive



sounds good v_lestat.... I've made a bit of progress tho... I've found that the "toram" option works....I'm now making one large FAT partition and seeing if that will work or not.
Hi there

I've successfully setup DSL on an USB pendrive. It works like a charm as long as the pendrive is writeable, but learning about the limited write cycles of an USB pendrive I'd like to use it read only. So I tried to boot with the little switch set to read only. Unfortunatlely I then get the same screen as the one MikeHunt79 posted. I thought there was no need to write to the USB pendrive while booting up? Is there a setting I could change or add to prevent write access while booting?
Thank you in advance.

Felix
Hi!

 I tried a lot of times to boot from a USB pen. Finally I success to boot from usb using loadlin from dos mode (booting linux directly crashed all times). But I have a problem: when x server is coming up the system halt when graphic mode is trying to initialize. From CD all works ok.

 I don't know... ¿Some idea?

Thanks for this incredible distro!!!
I get the same errors MikeHunt79 has in his screenshot (photo, :p  ).
I used the "Install to Pendrive" method, no errors during that script.
Any luck on using a different method described here? Bigger and single FAT partition?
I've got a Storix 128 Mb and I don't know why this is not working...
hit F2 when you guys boot and tell it to use frame buffering FB1024x768
just try it once see what happens.

other than that the only oddity i found was in the syslinux.cfg file  it shows the knoppix file as being in the root of the drive which its not, technically, and since linux is exact when it comes to locations.
the knoppix file is actually located in KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX  its inside the knoppix folder.
also notice that its case sensative. its not knoppix its KNOPPIX

you may want to boot into your regular OS and change that line to either CAPS or KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX  and see whats happening.

i can only boot 2 ways.
1 is if i boot from a floppy using the usbboot.img file, because it knows to look for a pendrive.
or
by copying the files off of the floppy onto the root of the pen drive.

now another thing i mentioned in another thread was the fact that i was not able to boot at all if i copies the boot folder onto the pen drive. once i removed that it started working a little better.
i dont know why but its jsut the way it was.

i know im probably doing things very wrong but thats just my experiences


also if i try to use frugal in the boot command line it will always fail to boot. with the exact same error the other chap has.
i can not use frugal which i thought was the only way to make the pen drive writable.
why is this. and how do i go about properly booting to a writeable pen drive.?
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