Size of Unzipped file

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Size of Unzipped file
started by: kilroy99

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Posted by kilroy99 on Nov. 29 2006,04:35

Good day all,

I have just tried to set up my usb key (64 meg) and it tells me that there is not enough space on the drive.
Sure enough - when I unzip the embedded dsl onto local drive it is over 100 megs.

I was under the impression that DSL would never be over 50 megs ( and thus should fit quite comfortably onto 64 megs)

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Kilroy

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Posted by kerry on Nov. 29 2006,08:29

Yeah, don't unzip.

You burn the iso and use the installer to install to the usb.

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Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 29 2006,13:53

Well if he's doing the manual way, ie he can't burn or boot from cd, etc., then he could do it this way.

dsl-embedded comes with a blank ~60mb harddisk image for use with qemu.  It's safe to delete. It's located in ..../qemu/harddisk .  If you also don't plan on using qemu at all, you could also just delete that whole folder (and the extra scripts/text in the parent folder).

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Posted by kilroy99 on Nov. 29 2006,14:13

Thanks for the help
Kilroy

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Posted by roberts on Nov. 29 2006,16:20

I just saw the latest changes to the Wiki and now I can understand why this post occured. In the Wiki it is called "Installing to USB flash drive".

This is wrong. These instructions are already contained in the readme inside dsl-embedded. In the Wiki, at the minimum it should be "Making DSL/Qmeu bootable on USB flash" and mention of needing at least 128MB device.

dsl-embedded.zip is not just DSL. It is Qemu + DSL + 60MB virtual hard disk. This Qemu DSL Embedded Environment fits nicely on a 128MB pendrive or above.

The native DSL install to USB pendrives are self contained in the DSL release and are available from the DSL menu Apps->Tools->Install to pendrive.

DSL works great on a 64MB pendrive. I am still using mine.

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