USB booting error & a 2x4

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: USB booting error & a 2x4
started by: NooWave

Posted by NooWave on Jan. 07 2005,03:44

I struggled greatly with getting DSL to work on my SanDisk 256mb Cruzer. After reading forum postings, manually loading syslinux, running various scripts, fighting with partitions, this noobie discovered what was the problem all along *and* may be causing some other folks problems as well with the install on a USB option from apps:tools.

When you run that, a bash window will open up and ask you to be sure that you really want to do this. It connects to ibiblio. Then it mkfs, and mounts. Then it says it is Done and sits there with no more info.

So, yours truly, the *very* Linux noobie, well, thought it was done and tried the reboots and so on. It was broken, no MBR, and so on.

The problem? Just because it says it is Done - it really isn't - wait awhile, watch your USB pendrive flicker for awhile - about a minute. How do you know it is done? The pendrive doesn't flicker anymore *and* the window will close - go away - disappear off the desktop.

Am I being Captain Obvious here? Of course, now it works perfectly - everytime... went from 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 today... slick as you can get.

sigh....

I truly hope this helps someone and I am not the only person who thought Done meant Done here.

Now I am playing with the embedded DSL ... way cool, just way cool.

...NooWave

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 07 2005,04:01

Congratulations!!

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 07 2005,05:08

NooWave..

Now go get the 0.9.2 embedded.zip from the same place you got the 0.9.2.iso.

Open it up, and copy all the files EXCEPT for the ldlinux.sys,
( it already boots up correctly, right? )

and the /knoppix/knoppix file ( the compressed filesystem )

Then you'll have a 5 way 0.9.2 bootable Pendrive.
With a 64MB persistant pseudo harddrive, that works in all 5 ways.

Boots native in DSL as USB device ( on computers that can )
Boots in Windows Desktop( thru qemu )
Boots in Linux Desktop ( thru qemu )
Boots from floppy ( using the commands 'dsl qemu frugal' )
Boots from CD ( using the commands 'dsl qemu frugal' )
And of course, you can still boot native from either floppy or CD
( ' dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 ' )

73
ke4nt