"Dual" Boot
Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: "Dual" Boot
started by: SiliciuS
Posted by SiliciuS on Aug. 14 2005,20:38
Hello everyone.What I'd love to do - now that I managed to get DSL Linux to boot from my 64MB Trekstor USB-pendrive is what the DSL homepage advertises:
(Edited for reference: < Qemu + USB 'ad' > )
| Quote |
| Please note: Do to the innovation of the new 5-way install script all our USB pens are now bootable via USB-Zip and also Qemu! |
Is there any way to turn my usb-stick into such a wondrous item? And is it in fact the *same* DSL they boot into, or is it rather an embedded installation and a seperate USB-Zip installation?
I'd love to have one installation of DSL on my meager 64 MB stick and be able to boot from USB as well as use Qemu to boot inside a host OS.
Any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated (as would be a way to search the forums - maybe this question is already answered and I didn't find it?).
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Aug. 14 2005,20:57
The 5-way script needs around 70mb (50mb of DSL + usb boot stuff + qemu) , so you will need a 128mb usb dongle to do it, but yes, it works like that. Bootable from inside windows, or natively, via usb-zip.-J.P.
Posted by SiliciuS on Aug. 14 2005,21:26
Okay, thank you very much....I might just be running off to buy a larger USB stick, would surprise myself too much
If I do - where do I get the new 5-way script?
Okay I just saw them on the FTP at ibiblio
Posted by mstrhelix on Aug. 15 2005,05:16
Another wonderfull thing about Qemu(the program that runs dsl embedded) is that you can d-load any linux flavor .iso image and boot it with qemu as well.you can boot: inside windows...
slackware
trinux
Redhat
Solaris
dsl
window almost all flavors
qemu is what i've been waiting for all my life.
Posted by SiliciuS on Aug. 15 2005,14:00
Yeah it's pretty slick. But as it says: It's pretty slow as well ;-)Anyways it is a great thing, if I encounter noticably faster machines or qemu speed-up is working it might change the way I work with linux quite a bit. Together with DSL I can finally have a desktop-on-the-go. I especially love the use of fluxbox - as I'm a big fan of blackbox (on windows as well).
I even considered installing a win98 on a usb stick with qemu, but I canned that idea, because its pretty pointless
Posted by SiliciuS on Aug. 16 2005,00:05
Back to my original idea. I've now managed to snatch up a fine little 512 MB Trekstor stick. Looks just like my 64MB stick just more roomy Anyway: How do I get the dual goodness of qemu and bootable linux?
Do I just install DSL from the CD-Rom with the "Install to USB-Pendrive HDD" and then copy the additional qemu files to the pendrive?
And if so where does the 5way-script come in? How do I use that?
So far I'm quite fond of DSL, but find that it's sometimes a little short on documentation - as in this case
...apart from that: Keep up the superb work!
Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 16 2005,01:03
Very little documentation is needed for the 5 way.What is needed is contained within the 5 way itself.
Download the 5way.tgz from the current section of the repository.
Open and have fun.
73
ke4nt
Posted by SiliciuS on Aug. 16 2005,08:57
Okay I see......just one thing: The 5-way-script is not entirely correct. It tries to fetch a file called "dsl-embedded" from the mirror at ibiblio.org. Problem is, that there is only a file called "dsl-embedded.zip" on ibiblio.org.
It's no trouble fixing it, if you now the tiniest bit about scripting in linux, but I can image some newbies can be seriously confused if all the script does is throw out an error when trying to fetch the packet...
Where would be the right place to report such things, by the way?
Posted by kopsis on Aug. 16 2005,09:20
| Quote (SiliciuS @ Aug. 15 2005,10:00) |
| Yeah it's pretty slick. But as it says: It's pretty slow as well ;-) |
QEMU speeds up quite a bit if you use the QEMU Accelerator (which as of QEMU 7 now supports Windows). You have to build the accelerator module yourself (license terms prohibit redistributing the binary) but doing so is pretty easy.