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Posted: July 05 2005,01:03 QUOTE
I hope this is in the right place.

I havent found any information here on how to boot from a floppy that would provide USB support (as my laptop doesnt have any kind of USB-booting support--I don't think it even turns it on until it gets to windows) and then you can just run DSL from the USB key?
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Posted: July 05 2005,02:53 QUOTE
1) Download the boot usb floppy image file from the dsl download site:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....usb.img

2) To make a boot floppy from MSWindows, download the rawrite32 program:

http://www.duskware.com/download/rawrite.exe

Then use rawrite32 to create a boot floppy disk.

Then use it to boot your DSL USB key.
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Posted: July 05 2005,15:47 QUOTE
yay--it works on my desktop.

Although, when I put it on the laptop, it gets to the CPU detection where it figures out my CPU and then stops after that...and I left it there for a while, and its just stuck there :(
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Posted: July 05 2005,16:09 QUOTE
Try booting with:

failsafe

on the command line, NOT

dsl failsafe

but just

failsafe
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Posted: July 06 2005,18:08 QUOTE
Yup, tried that and it works. Only thing is, it skips PCMCIA detection (which is where my LAN card is) and my soundcard detection. I'll look into this deeper on getting my LAN card to work (as i've gotten both sound and LAN workingin Mandrake 10 before by simplying typing some commands). I'm a n00b to this linux stuff, so its gonna take me a little while :)
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