Restore from/backup to floppy with embedded

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Restore from/backup to floppy with embedded
started by: pr0f3550r

Posted by pr0f3550r on April 07 2006,10:59

When I backup to fd0 I get this message:
"/mnt/auto/floppy: filesystem is read only"
<edit>This happens in embedded 2.0, not in qemu+2.2b.iso</edit>
However:

$mount
/dev/fd0 on /mnt/auto/floppy type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=000)

Then, checking the floppy I can find the backups.tar.gz

Now, qemu understands floppy as fda, but DSL as fd0 and according to the wiki, the restore option should be restore=floppy.

EDIT:
I have tried: restore:floppy but no success.

I have tried restore=fd0 and it tells me that it's restoring from /mnt/auto/floppy, but indeed it doesn't overwrite the standard configuration files (.bash**, .Xauthoriry, .x***, etc)

Confused!

EDIT:
Backed up to fd0 from qemu+iso = success
Restore from fd0 from qemu+iso = Success

So, at least I know it works with the qemu+dsl combination.
Tomorrow I'll try with the standard embedded.

Posted by roberts on April 07 2006,16:04

It would be most helpful to all of those who use Qemu to post your dsl-windows.bat with you -fda option. That way anyone tyring to answer your question would be playing from a known starting point.
Alot of the newest features of Qmeu are trying to support real devices and some are considered beta.

Posted by pr0f3550r on April 08 2006,12:51

DSL embedded 2.0 (cloop-patched):

Code Sample

qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -enable-audio -localtime -kernel linux24 -initrd minirt24.gz -hda KNOPPIX/knoppix -hdb qemu/harddisk -fda //./a: -append "dsl restore=fd0 qemu desktop=jwm keyboard=uk sb=0x220,5,1,1 frugal quiet modules=hdb mydsl=hdb"

QEMU + dsl-2.1b.iso

Code Sample

qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -enable-audio -localtime -cdrom ../ISO/dsl-2.1b.iso -hdb qemu/harddisk -fda //./a: -boot d

Then at the prompt:

Code Sample

dsl keyboard=uk vga=769 mydsl=hdb restore=fd0