It's Possible?...

Forum: USB booting
Topic: It's Possible?...
started by: exa_gon

Posted by exa_gon on May 26 2005,10:26

Hi, i'm trying the DSL ditribution, and it's very very wonderful.

But, it's possible install a DSL on a 128 MB pen in ext fs ?..but not a live distro and not a compressed.

Thanks in advice
EXA

PS. i try frugal install, but sda is not supported.

Posted by meo on May 26 2005,13:53

Hi exa_gon!

I really agree with you that DSL is a wonderful distribution. I'm just curious why you want it to be in ext2(?) filesystem. I'm using dsl-embedded on a fat32 formatted usb-drive and it works just fine embedded in either windows or linux and it can be booted directly from the usb-drive as if it were a harddrive. So why ext2(?) filesystem?

Have fun,
meo

Posted by exa_gon on May 26 2005,14:35

Hi meo,
Because i want to configure all my system on time!and when i reboot all configuration is saved on a fs.

....the ext is an a curiosity.

Thanks in advice.
Bye
EXA

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 26 2005,15:13

Although you could install to a pendrive like a normal hdd theoretically, you really would not want to, due to the limited number of writes you can do to a sector with flash media.

Your pendrive would keel over and start smoking very quickly.

Posted by meo on May 26 2005,19:15

Hi again!

I use the backup/restore utility to save my settings. I have this file in the root of my usb-drive and it works like a charm. You can even change the settings so that DSL makes a backup automatically when you shutdown the computer. Does't that sound like something for you exa_gon?

Have fun,
meo

Posted by exa_gon on May 27 2005,07:39

Yes meo, wow.Can you explain how do you do that ?

Thanks a lot guys.
Bye
EXA

Posted by meo on May 27 2005,10:47

Hi exa_gon!

Well it's quite simple really. The key to the backup/restore utility is the filetol.lst found in your home directory. When you make a backup everything on the filetool.lst is compressed into the backup.tar.gz file known as the backup-file. You can put it where you want but if you are using a usb-drive and want it to backup at boot without having to give an extra boot command just put it on sda1. I guess that is how your usb-drive is recognized in DSL. If you want to make DSL to automatically make a backup when you shutdown go to /opt/powerdown.sh and make sure the last line filetool.sh backup noprompt is uncommented (no # mark before this line) and that's all. Hope It all works out to your liking.

Have fun,
meo