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Posted: June 18 2006,13:29 QUOTE
Hello,

I'm a DSL newbie and I'm trying now DSL 3RC2. Works very well from CD. I want to install it to my USB stick/pendrive. It came with 2 partitions where the first one is about 250MB and the other one 1.44MB. Both are FAT partitions. I don't want to mess up with them. But the USBHDD installation routine (for installing DSL to a USB device) said something about a new partition. I don't want this. Is there a (safe) way to just install DSL to the existing partition without modifying too much (I'd like to use the stick also for data backup in Windows)? How to do so?

And another question: as my PC's bios doesn't support booting from an USB device I need a boot floppy disk. Actually there are two provided: bootfloppy.img and bootfloppy-usb.img. What's the difference between them? Do I need to use the USB version?

Thanks for helping!
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Posted: June 26 2006,17:54 QUOTE
Both usb-zip and usb-hdd will change your pendrive geometry.

If you want to keep your current geometry and partition sizes,
you have to use more advanced techniques with syslinux or
maybe freedos+loadlin.


p.s/ RC queries shouldn't really be posted here.
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Posted: June 30 2006,09:36 QUOTE
I've now tried FreeDos and LoadLin. I've provided linux24 for the image parameter and minirt.gz for the initrd parameter. It seems like it is starting/booting up at first but after some initialisation stuff it stops with a '#' as prompt. I don't know what to do now or why it suddenly stopped processing. There was no obvious error message displayed. Anyone any ideas?
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Posted: July 01 2006,18:43 QUOTE
Addition to my previous post:
That '#' prompt happens when I use Linld (similar to loadlin). If I use loadlin the way it is suggested in http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install
the linux24 and minirt24.gz are loaded up (dot progress) but right after this the screen goes blank and nothing is possible any more (I have to reset the PC). Anyone experienced this too once? Any solution?
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Posted: July 03 2006,03:38 QUOTE
okay, forget about freedos for now. if you can get the knoppix image in the /knoppix/ directory on the first partition of the usb, then try the standard usb-boot floppy and see what happens.
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