USB booting :: ehci-hcd



Crew,

Maybe the load order of the drivers was incorrect in my last post.

Try again with echi-hcd.o at the begginning and followed up by the ohci and uhci drivers.

My hope is this will give you both USB2.0 and USB1.1 functionality without the need to edit your linuxrc depending on what computer you are using today :)
CB,

I got it and I like it very much. My Big Fat PenDrive. :)

cbagger combined some parts of USB-ZIP and USB-HDD to get the best of both in a USB-HDD that provides a single "big fat" partition bootable via USB-HDD. So, by uisng syslinux and fat, windows can see it and qemu can also be used as well as the linux tools 5way. Because it uses syslinux means that it can work with the usb boot floppy. that *is* what it is using just like the USB-ZIP script does. Now it seems to me that the current USB-HDD can be deprecated and replaced with this. After some more beta testing it will be deployed.  Look for it soon. Nice job. CB.

Robert
Ok. Folks,

Cbagger's modified pendrive_usbhdd.tar.gz has now been deployed on ibiblio.org.
It will work from the install to pendrive hdd version from the system menu. So no need to manually download it. Just be aware that it may not yet be on your favorite mirror that is specified via /opt/.dslrc. You know you have the new modified version if on the opening display it shows "A single FAT partition will be made."
This version has many benefits over the prior version, as noted in the previous post.
k, I killed my installation from yesterday and reinstalled
DSL on the stick with the new script.

I´m impressed. ;D
The installation didn´t take longer than 3 or 4 minutes, not
compareable to the old one.
Recognized the stick correct on the first boot.

Great job, thanks.
Hi,

I have just tried the new usb-hdd script.  Took only a few minutes and just booted!  Brilliant!

Am sending this from a DSL session using the newly created usb  booting DSL.

However, I have a question/request.

After trying Red Hat/Fedora, Mandrake, Knoppix, Kanotix, Mepis and Feather, I have settled on DSL as the best (and most supported)  linux distro to use as the base for adding the bits and pieces I need.

These bits and pieces include support for wireless adapters, a program called 'Privoxy', that I use as a content filter on my home network plus a few others.

To get all these working and to have the X session looking good is very difficult (for a relative newcomer) to achieve in a console based session - where it seems most remastering is done.

So, it would be great to be able to get a DSL hd installation working just right and then make a /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX compressed file system from it. This could then be copied onto the USB stick (or ISO'd and burnt to a CD) and all the setup, tinkering, etc would be preserved.

A post from late last year (by noclobber, based on DSL 0.8) showed how to make a compressed KNOPPIX file from a hd installation but (I think) the method doesn't work for the newer DSL.

I reckon there are quite a few DSL users that would like to be able to preserve all the tinkering attached to a hd installation.

What's the chance of a guide/how to?

Regards,

Geoff.
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