How I got DSL on a USB Key (From Windows)
Forum: USB booting
Topic: How I got DSL on a USB Key (From Windows)
started by: PockyBum522
Posted by PockyBum522 on June 28 2005,04:20
I'm a noob to this, but here's what I did and it worked (Twice even)1. Put your usb key in a usb port
2. Format it as fat16
3. Put a blank floppy in your floppy drive
4. Open a command prompt
5. Navigate to where you extracted the files
6. Run rawrite2
7. Type bootusb.img and press enter.
8. Type a: and press enter.
9. Press enter
10 Copy all the files off the floppy onto your usb drive root
11 Run mkbt -c a: bootsect.bin
12 Run mkbt -x bootsect.bin E: (If E is your usb key's drive letter. BE 100% SURE as this overwrites the boot sector on that drive)
13 Copy files from dsl-1.2.1.iso to your usb drive
Notes: To get files from the iso I use winrar (www.rarlabs.com)
To open a command window go to start>run and type command.
To navigate in dos use cd to get from your current folder to a subfolder. (E.g. CD folder)
All files mentioned here are in this zip: < http://www.freewebs.com/pockybum522/DSLUSBTutorial.zip >
Posted by hmoner on June 29 2005,17:18
Great tip !I suppose this tutorial is for making DSL boot from USB drive..
But what about running DSL from usb drive, but by booting the usb drive from QEMU ?
I mean, in the DSL website, a usb pen drive is offered, which includes DSL and something to run it in Windows without rebooting the machine... this is what i want...
da ya know where to find a tut - howto for this ?
thanks
Posted by cbagger01 on June 30 2005,01:59
It's called DSL Embedded.It is possible to have a DSL USB install that has both the USB boot capability AND the QEMU Windows capability, but you need to download and run the 5-way install script from the DSL download site.
Posted by hmoner on June 30 2005,02:28
Thanks 4 helpingI suppose you referring to this file, right ?
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....way.tgz >
Posted by cbagger01 on July 02 2005,05:00
Yep