Win2K, USB, and DSLForum: USB booting Topic: Win2K, USB, and DSL started by: gregarican Posted by gregarican on Dec. 16 2004,14:05
I have a Windows 2000 Professional laptop, and wish to run DSL from a USB flash key I have. It's a 256 MB Iomega Micro Mini USB 2.0 key. I have downloaded QEMU and the latest DSL ISO image. I have copied these to the USB key. But when I issue the command line to load the image I receive a FATAL error about the hard disk not being bootable. Reading a few posts am I missing something? I have seen a WinImage utility mentioned. Do I need to format the USB key a certain way? My hard drive is NTFS format so I can't use DSL there from what I gather? And I don't have a CD-ROM drive with this laptop (Fujitsu P1100 Lifebook subnotebook). Any pointers would be appreciated! Posted by gregarican on Dec. 16 2004,14:05
Forgot to mention. The USB key itself is FAT formatted...
Posted by gregarican on Dec. 16 2004,20:54
Close this question out. I had mistyped part of the command line option for Qemu to launch things. Now things are working correctly. Wish I had a faster CPU than I have (a laptop Crusoe processor @ < 1 GHz). Other than that things are great :-)
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