two partition on usb key

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: two partition on usb key
started by: sham

Posted by sham on June 12 2004,19:10

DSL works fine on my usb key. I made two partitions on my key but sylinux doesn't work . Are there solutions to make bootable my key.
Otherwise how to do backup / restore on the key?
Sorry for my english .
Thanks for informations

Posted by nathanael on June 23 2004,14:39

hi sham
i thought the same way as you did first, but in fakt, there are no 2 partition neccessary. only 1 is enough. copy your DSL on it and use the rest of the space for your backups.
how to make it boot? well... i'm still working out. mine doesnt start the same.
-are you sure that your usbdrive ist bootable? some are not!!!

here a usefull link i found in the forum:
< http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/ >

Posted by sham on June 25 2004,18:44

thanks nathanael
I modified linuxrc in miniroot.gz .I changed DEVICES="dev/hd?" to DEVICE= "dev/sd?" etc....
it works fine, i can boot on usb.
After i modified backup.sh to save my configuration on my key.
sham