DSL Embedded :: Installing Embedded

Thanks for that. Just trying to get my head round the whole thing. What I'm trying to do is run DSL from the USB drive and have all the data there as well so I can use it at other machines within the school and carry everything around with me and not have to use windows. I've tried the HD install option to the usb drive and then I booted from it (I'm lucky got a new laptop with USB boot option), but it stalls and says I have to do something with root at boot up. Does this seem the right option rather than using the emulator? I've tried the option you mention, but sometimes work at machines that are not connected to the the net so there is no IP address. I just sometimes want to sit and write a few reports and listen to some music that I have on the usb hard drive. If I'm connected to the net the reports erm don't seem to get done!

You probably need to create a root password after the installation.

HD install will work, but you will need to build some kind of custom boot floppy to get it to work on computers that do not support USB hard drive booting in BIOS.

If you do a frugal or poormans install to your USB hard drive, then you can use the standard DSL USB boot floppy image and get up and running.

Not that this is exactly related, but one experiment I tried might be useful for you. I used qemu-img.exe to create a 1-gig file, then attached that file to the system on hdd: just add it to your qemu .bat file like hdb (hdd=qemu/myNewImageFile). The drawback is that your files on hdd won't be available to windows then. You can also attach a swap file this way, just format it as swap space from dsl.

I believe that it's possible to partition this file in dsl as well using fdisk.

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