DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: booting from USB device via floppy
You guys can use boot disk from flonix linux which is based on DSL.
http://linuxdocs.tuxfamily.org/flonix/index.php?page=download
burn it with win rawrite
Download Flonix linux usb edition
Extract all files to usb thumb drive. Then replace Knoppix folder from DSL.
It worked fine for me.
Thanks, I'll try flonix then. I'll post results here for everyone.
Regards,
Aeros
Works like a charm with flonix, thanks for the suggestion.
Regards,
Aeros
Owkee, I've been trying to boot DSL from my usb device. I am using the runt (3.2) boot image, during boot it recognizes my storage device, and then something goed wrong :P
VFS: Mounted root umsdos filesystem
Trying to move old root to /initrd...Failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory...ok
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Warning: unable to open initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel
and B.T.W. http://linuxdocs.tuxfamily.org/flonix/index.php?page=download is dead so can't use that one. 
so can somebody help me??? 
Regards,
RiKoRn
Hellowm
I was also searching for a distro that runs from an usb-stick. DSL is a great distro so I searched for tzo days for the flonix boot-floppy. Now I ve found it but I have to try it by my self. Dont know if it works..
http://www.geocities.com/ilinty74/
check the tail of the page..
good luck
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