error using Apps-Tools-Install to USB Pendrive

Forum: USB booting
Topic: error using Apps-Tools-Install to USB Pendrive
started by: dougrb

Posted by dougrb on May 29 2005,04:18

Greetings all,

I am new to DSL and am getting an error trying to create a bootable USB card using Apps-Tools-Install to USB Pendrive. I am booting DSL from a CD. It goes thru the following sequence:

Changing geometry for USB-ZIP compatibility on /dev/sda1
Partitioning /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Formatting /dev/sda12
Formatting /dev/sda11
mkdosfs 2.9 (15 May 2003)
/dev/sda11: No such device or address
Error while formatting DOS filesystem

This is a 128MB CF card that is formatted in windows with FAT32. I am using a CF to USB adaptor. Prior to attempting the "Install to USB Pendrive" I can mount sda1 and see any files I have on it. After the error, on a windows box, it says the CF card is not formatted. If I do properties on it, it says the file system is "RAW".

Any ideas?

Thanks

Posted by edman on May 29 2005,04:25

hello,
here is what I used:
< http://fuzzymunchkin.dyndns.org/tdot/usbkeyfob/index.php >

good luck,

Posted by dougrb on May 29 2005,21:11

OK... here's how I got it working. First, when you are prompted to "Enter the device name of pendrive (Example: sda)", enter "sda" NOT "sda1" which is what I was entering. That allowed the script to run without any errors. However, it would not boot and had the errors that MikeHunt79 had in this thread:

< damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-17/t-5832 >

So I then tried the USBHDD script as mentioned in that thread. This worked and I now have DSL booting from the following two computers:

< www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_sp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=261 >

< linux.boeldt.net/IA-1_Description.asp >

although it is basically useless on the IA-1 because there is not enough horsepower in that machine.