DSL embedded without USB?

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: DSL embedded without USB?
started by: scalefree

Posted by scalefree on June 26 2006,19:30

I have an old PC without a working USB, CD or any other drive than the primary HD, running NT 4.0. Is there any way to run DSL embedded on it without having a USB or other device attached to my PC?

Posted by roberts on June 26 2006,20:35

Sure, download the embedded version it is a zip file.
Unzip the file into your choice of location on your C:\ D:\ etc
Then double click the dsl-windows.bat file to start it.

You do need some horsepower for your PC and old PC may not have enough memory or CPU, but try it.

Also, you may need to use Windows to change the compatibity mode on the qemu.exe if needed.

Posted by scalefree on June 26 2006,21:30

Yeah I tried running it in place already, no go. And I couldn't see any logfile or debug mode to tell me what's going wrong. I don't see any compatibility mode that I can select for qemu.exe, remember this is NT & the FS is FAT. Does it matter whrere I run it from, ie root dir? Do I need to fix the path? I was thinking the problem is DSL is expecting to mount a USB device & there is none to mount.

Posted by roberts on June 27 2006,00:49

I am not that Windows savvy to know.
However, dsl embedded uses Qemu and is self contained.
It does not install to registry or anything outside its own directory. This makes it ideal to run on a pendrive or from a directory of the users choice. Perhaps a user here has NT or perhaps the Qemu support forum would be more appropriate.

Posted by scalefree on June 27 2006,02:28

OK, on further inspection it looks like qemu is running OK, it opens a second DOS window which opens & closes almost too fast to read, but it looks like it says

Code Sample

NetworkParams failed, ret. = 000000032
Could not get DNS address

Any ideas?

Posted by mrjoeyman on July 15 2006,03:41

Quote (roberts @ June 26 2006,16:35)

Also, you may need to use Windows to change the compatibity mode on the qemu.exe if needed.

How would you change the compatibility? I get a qemu error when trying to run embedded from any other place than my drive pen.

Posted by mrjoeyman on July 15 2006,23:17

Well I answered my own question again.

I right clicked on qemu.exe and clicked properties and changed the compatibility to work with windows 98 (I use XP) and then tried again to run dsl from the embedded dsl batch file and it worked like a charm. Just posting this in case someone else runs into the same problem.

Joel