problem with syslinux

Forum: USB booting
Topic: problem with syslinux
started by: statman

Posted by statman on April 07 2005,02:35

Sorry for the basic post, but I'm very new to DSL. I just read the Feb 2005 article Linux on a Stick and am trying to make a bootable pen drive. All the commands in that article worked nicely, until the last command, which is "syslinux /dev/sda". My DSL installation (dsl-1.0rc2-syslinux.iso) cannot find the syslinux command. Nor could a few other distros I have downloaded. Is there anything that I can do in order to make this bootable pen drive work? Thanks in advance.

Tom

Posted by cbagger01 on April 07 2005,03:54

Boot into DSL.

Start Synaptic from the DSL menu

Choose syslinux from the list of programs.

Push the install button.

When install is finished, exit Synaptic.

Open a terminal window

type:

sudo su
syslinux /dev/sda

and you are in business.