CD booting?
Forum: USB booting
Topic: CD booting?
started by: coolrider64n
Posted by coolrider64n on Aug. 17 2005,15:36
Is this possible with DSL? I wanna beable to boot off the cd and than use my ipod color 60gig to put linux files on because its fat32 and my system is ntfs. So plan and simple is this possible? Thanks.BTW a friend told me to come here to start out with linux. I wanna give linux a test drive and possibley use it at school so I can install programs since the admins wont allow that.
EDITED: Sorry for posting in the USB booting section but there was no cd booting section so I figured this would be best place since usb booting is simliar to CD booting being the only differance is it cant write on the CD.
Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 17 2005,15:55
Sure,Boot from a liveCD.
At the boot prompt, type
" dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 "
(If your copy of the DSL files are in the first partition of your ipod)
Once it finds the /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file on the ipod,
it should continue booting from the device.
Let us know..
73
ke4nt
Posted by coolrider64n on Aug. 17 2005,16:02
How do I make a liveCD? Just download the current ISO for DSL and burn the image to a CD? What files do I need on my ipod? I'm really sorry but this is my first time with linux so I need to ask questions. Thanks 
Posted by green on Aug. 17 2005,16:11
You can read below to learn how to make a bootable CD. It's easy.< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/63 >
I've never used an iPod, however, I don't believe that you would need any files on it prior to installing DSL. But, you should read this:
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/62 >
The documentation is brief, easy to understand, and to the point.
Posted by coolrider64n on Aug. 17 2005,16:18
Thanks for the links.I wanna double check to make sure my hard drives dont get reformated but making a bootable CD will boot dsl off the CD and wont format my harddrives right? Thanks.
Posted by green on Aug. 17 2005,16:40
When you boot from a properly made live CD, have no worries.It will not access the hard drives until YOU tell it to do so.
Have fun!
Posted by coolrider64n on Aug. 17 2005,16:41
Thanks a lot. I'm ready to take the linux dive. To bad games dont run on linux or I would probley have permient linux installed because linux is easy on the resources and I own 73 comptuer games.
Posted by mstrhelix on Aug. 17 2005,17:41
Plug in your IPOD and boot from DSL cd. Then use the dmesg | more
command to see if the kernel recognizes your ipod and what it is called... ie... your hard drive is called /dev/hda1 IPOD may be called /dev/hdb /dev/hdc or the like.
Then to check if you can use it Right click on the DSL desktop and choose system backup/restore and restore to your IPOD ie.... hdc.
Make sure you find out what the IPOD is called with dmesg ...
After it backs up you can mount the IPOD and you should find a
backup.tar.gz file on it. If you find this file then you know it worked.