Maybe dsl-windows.bat is not working correctly?
Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Maybe dsl-windows.bat is not working correctly?
started by: cmiltonperl
Posted by cmiltonperl on Feb. 11 2007,19:21
I purchased "DSL on a 1 Gig USB drive" from "Lizard Biscuit" recently. I am new to using Linux with qemu on a USB drive, but not to using UNIX and Linux generally.When I double-click "dsl-windows.bat", qemu boots up, but in the end it gives me the "Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry." message. "ls" doesn't work, though "cd", "cat", and "mount" are available.
How can I get qemu to find the filesystem? So far I haven't found a mountpoint that works. If there is no filesystem, then where are the /dev files located?
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Chris
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 11 2007,21:58
I think the scripts were somewhat changed.. try the other .bat files..
Posted by cmiltonperl on Mar. 04 2007,05:34
There are no other MSWin batch files.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 04 2007,06:18
Which version of dsl-embedded are you using?Please paste out the filelist of your usb and the contents of dsl-windows.bat
Posted by roberts on Mar. 04 2007,08:29
I am not sure of what they are distributing, but I would guess that you need to create a virtual hard drive for storage of data. Once you post the files and contents of the script as hats suggested then we will be able to help. You should also read the readme.txt file which should explain how to create your virtual storage device.
Posted by cmiltonperl on Mar. 10 2007,16:53
I bought this USB stick off this website from the people running the project.< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html >
I read the readme.txt included, but it didn't help much.
I can't follow the instructions about what to type at
the boot: prompt, because it jumps past all that, fails to find
the Knoppix filesystem and drops me to the knoppix# prompt.
"Dropping you to a (very limited) shell."
only 'cat' 'mount' 'umount' 'insmod' 'rmmod' and 'lsmod' are available.
===
When Running from Windows:
Double click on 'dsl-windows.bat'
===
dsl-windows.bat:
===
REM Start qemu on windows.
@ECHO OFF
START qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -no-kqemu -m 128 -soundhw sb16 -localtime -kernel linux24 -initrd minirt24.gz -hda KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX -hdb qemu/harddisk -append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,5 frugal quiet modules=hdb noscsi nousb nofirewire atapicd noideraid noacpi acpi=off noapm noagp ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe nomce"
CLS
EXIT
===
It used to say, KNOPPIX/knoppix, but that produced the same errors.
===
Here's a dirlist:
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Directory of G:\
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> KNOPPIX
2007-02-02 09:49 119 boot.msg
2007-02-02 09:49 226 dsl-linux.sh
2007-02-02 09:49 1,592 f2
2007-02-02 09:49 1,595 f3
2007-02-02 09:49 256 german.kbd
2007-02-02 09:49 994,807 linux24
2007-02-02 09:49 33,780 logo.16
2007-02-02 09:49 812,257 minirt24.gz
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> qemu
2007-02-02 09:49 468 qemu-linux-notes.txt
2007-02-02 09:49 1,965 readme.txt
2007-02-02 09:49 2,075 syslinux.cfg
2007-02-02 09:49 7,844 LDLINUX.SYS
2007-02-02 09:49 364 Copy of dsl-windows.bat
2007-02-11 11:14 364 dsl-windows.bat
14 File(s) 1,857,712 bytes
Directory of G:\KNOPPIX
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> .
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> ..
2007-02-02 09:49 49,824,174 KNOPPIX
1 File(s) 49,824,174 bytes
Directory of G:\qemu
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> .
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> ..
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> License
2007-02-02 09:49 357,888 SDL.dll
2007-02-02 09:49 65,536 bios.bin
2007-02-02 09:49 162,816 fmod.dll
2007-02-02 09:49 61,440,000 harddisk
2007-02-02 09:49 512 linux_boot.bin
2007-02-02 09:49 750,104 qemu
2007-02-02 09:49 916,480 qemu.exe
2007-02-02 09:49 32,768 vgabios-cirrus.bin
2007-02-02 09:49 32,768 vgabios.bin
9 File(s) 63,758,872 bytes
Directory of G:\qemu\License
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> .
2007-02-02 09:49 <DIR> ..
2007-02-02 09:49 346 LICENSE
2007-02-02 09:49 5,177 README.TXT
2007-02-02 09:49 425 README-SDL.txt
3 File(s) 5,948 bytes
Total Files Listed:
27 File(s) 115,446,706 bytes
9 Dir(s) 932,102,144 bytes free
Posted by fredvej on Mar. 11 2007,10:01
There will be no boot-prompt when you run DSL using qemu. The equivalent of the boot prompt is what is written after -append on the command line in dsl-windows.bat.To see error messages from qemu please open a command prompt, cd to the root of your USB stick and run dsl-windows.bat from there.
Try to download dsl-3.1-embedded.zip (if that is your version) and compare the KNOPPIX file on you USB stick with the file in the zip.