USB Install
Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB Install
started by: ShellMaza
Posted by ShellMaza on April 17 2006,04:54
Ok, Ive Tryed My Lexar 256MB Jump Drive In EVERY Single USB Port In My Pc, But It Just Will Not Install. "PENDrive Install"Weird Thing Is, I Boot The LiveCD And USe My Jump Drive As A Backup Device And It Reads/Writes No Problem!
PS: how do i attach images?
Posted by doobit on April 17 2006,14:17
Looks like you have something going on that's keeping the pendrive from unmounting when it should before partitioning. You may need to use cfdisk to delete all partitions, and then format the pendrive as a single FAT16 partition before you attempt the install. I also suspect this is a problem with a number of people who have been trouble with pendrives after an install attempt. BLKRRPART forces a re-read of the SCSI partition tables - which is how DSL sees (or should see) your Lexar jump disk. However, I noticed that when you typed "Y" to display the USB storage information, that no information was returned.
Posted by ShellMaza on April 17 2006,15:44
Rebooted And Follow Your Instructions. Still Errors. I Really Like This DSL. Its Very Easy To Use. Could You Post A Winimg Of Your PenDrive? I Tryed Winimg By Putting The USBbootfloppy.img And Copying The Content Of The CD To The Drive, No Go. Will Not Boot. My BISO Says [USB RMD-FDD Lexer ] As A Boot Option.
Posted by doobit on April 17 2006,16:12
I have used the USB HDD install scripts many times on many different USB sticks and with different versions of DSL and they all work. You are having trouble just installing DSL to the pendrive which means something is wrong in the way the script is interacting with your current setup. Are you sure the pendrive is not mounted when you start the install?
Posted by Pea Soup on April 17 2006,16:58
I had the exact same problem, but I came up with this solution.I did a five-way install. I simply downloaded the dsl-embedded zipfile and unzipped it to my pendrive. Afterwards I syslinux'ed my pendrive to make it bootable.
This was the only convenient alternative I could come up with, short of using floppies to boot DSL on my CD-less laptop.
Posted by ShellMaza on April 17 2006,17:42
In windows, copyed files no problem..cfdisk Reports FS= FAT16
syslinux says
sda Aint FAT And Sectors Are Larger Than 512
Its Like Its Not Ment To Happen For Me
Posted by doobit on April 17 2006,17:51
OK, that could be a USB geometry problem, although I haven't heard of that happening in a while. How old is the USB drive?There are instructions in the WIKI for fixing USB drive geometry.
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....endrive >
Posted by ShellMaza on April 17 2006,19:23
Usb Drive... Atleast A Year Old. I Put It In My Labtop And Tryed The Install. No Problem. Put The USB Drive On My Main Pc, Starts The Boot And Then Says It Can't Find The Knoppix Image.... Go Figure....
Posted by doobit on April 17 2006,19:59
Maybe you could update the mainPC's BIOS? Some BIOS configurations don't allow a USB boot install at all.
Posted by ShellMaza on April 17 2006,21:26
Bios Is Upto DateMSI 865PE Neo-3
Posted by Sparken on April 18 2006,05:54
I have seen some sketchy bios problems on some PCs with my USB DSL. On one PC in particular, it was a 50/50 chance of getting the can't find knoppix,
dropping to a shell, yada yada.
What seemed to help (so far 3 conseq successfull boots, w00t) was to use the
"dsl waitusb" command at bootup prompt. I also had to ensure that I enabled
USB Legacy Keyboard and mouse settings in the bios.