USB booting :: help booting from USB?

i am new to dsl linux and need to know how to put dsl linux on a flash drive so that i am able to boot it from the boot menufrom start up. Anybody with some ideas, or with some experience?

Hi tim_hnk!

If you by flash drive refer to a usb-drive (usb-stick) it is quite easy to install and get i up and running. Just download dsl-embedded and unzip it to your usb-drive. If the bios on your computer supports booting from usb just put that option before booting from hd and it should be up and running with just a reboot. If your bios doesn't support that (like my old box) you can boot with a cd. Reboot with a dsl-cd and issue following from the commandline that will appear: dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 qemu frugal xsetup and then just follow the onscreen prompts about your hardware. Your device might be recognized as something else than /dev/sda1, but usually this is the right option. So hope all works out. If it doesn't just post a note here and we will se what we can do.

Have lots of fun with DSL,
regards meo

thanks for your help but ut still doesn't work! my computer can boot from usb but it just says that there is a missing operating system, and it should be. any ideas?

There is a menu option in DSL for installing to a pendrive. The easiest would be to run that. If you have a larger drive and want DSL bootable and embedded, I recommend grabbing the 5-way script from the mirrors and installing that way.

Chris

Really i only need to download embedded-1.1.zip and unzip to pen-usb (formatted FAT right?) to use this distro as live-usb?
(Yes my bios supports boot by usb devices.)
I did this question because on this link the author describes another more complicated way to make DSL live on usb drive.

P.S.: to make DSL not live but installed version it is very difficult?
Thanx and sorry for my bad english.

Lewix

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