USB on Award BIOS

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB on Award BIOS
started by: uzerzero

Posted by uzerzero on June 28 2006,03:14

I'm not to new to Linux.. as I've played around with a few other distros and all. However, DSL is the first that I've attempted to get running off a USB drive. I simply copied the contents of the DSL-embedded version onto my USB drive and tried booting from it. Not sure if I have to format it or anything, as I'm relatively new to booting from a USB drive. I'm currently typing this off a LiveCD running in RAM (which works wonderfully and extremely fast). I've tried several USB boot options, such as USB-HDD, USB-ZIP, enabling/disabling USB keyboard support, etc. Any help would be appreciated in this manner.

Posted by humpty on June 28 2006,10:47

you are missing a boot loader and a boot sector on an active partition.

use the utility on the live cd: Apps>Tools>Install to usb-pendrive.

it will do everything for you.

Posted by uzerzero on June 29 2006,02:29

yeah i realized that earlier today when i was playing around with the install cd on some other computers. thanks though. also, are there any alternative methods to installing linux? i have a laptop with a cd drive that won't read cd-rs, and a floppy drive, and a wireless card. no usb either. i've got serial and parallel though.. doubt that'd help though.

Posted by humpty on June 29 2006,03:34

no usb ? and you were trying to run off a usb drive ??

if you have a hard disk, you could do a frugal install on it and
boot from hard disk.

Posted by uzerzero on June 29 2006,15:15

sorry, i was talking about a seperate computer when referring to the laptop. i managed to get the usb drive up and running on my computer and it works wonderfully.

the laptop (different computer than the one running DSL right now) has a floppy drive, a cd drive that only reads commercial cds, no usb or anything. i have a wireless card, although i doubt i could get online with it as i'm only running redhat 5.2 (some old magazine cds i had lying around). i checked the wiki and it will run off prism2, so maybe i'll download the drivers and run it on the laptop via floppy.