usb hd install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: usb hd install
started by: ve3stz

Posted by ve3stz on Oct. 10 2004,00:25

does anyone know how to make a boot floppy/cd for dsl?
I've done a usb hd install to a laptop pc(no builtin hd) but some thing are not working after the install like pcmcia slot so the network card does'nt work I use a floppy to get things booted called RUNT the netcard works from the live cd
Any help would be apreciated

de ve3stz
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Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 10 2004,01:09

Here is a link to the boot floppy image for the DSL 0.8.x series..

< http://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img >

73 de Kent
ke4nt

Posted by ve3stz on Oct. 10 2004,22:02

Thanks for the quick responce...tried the usb bootdisk and it didnt work for me. It's looking for an iso image and there is none on the harddrive so it goes into kernal panic.I have installed dsl like i would install to a hd on ide channel substuting hda1 with sda1
Maybe i should ask whats the best way to install dsl on a usb hd(i have 2gig)I want it to run like a normal hd install
thanks again

73 de ve3stz

Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 10 2004,22:34

EDIT <scratch, I didn't see the USB HD you wrote about..sri> EDIT

I wrote an entire post about USBkeys..

I wonder if the bootusb-0.8 image floppy would work better ?
It would possibly detect your USB HD better, but it still will look
for a /knoppix/knoppix compressed filesystem.

EDIT < looks like you tried that too > EDIT

I don't know how your lilo was setup when you completed the HDInstall ..
And, I'm assuming your Motherboard can boot from a USB-HDD device..

Lilo is usually the bootloader for HDInstalled systems ..
But can your computer GET to the bootloader?

73
ke4nt

Posted by ve3stz on Oct. 10 2004,23:16

No and thats where my problem is..motherboard cant boot usb,only cd or floppy(toshiba laptop p200 32meg mem)

so cant get to lilo so thats why i was using another boot floppy called RUNT It alowes me to boot into dsl but with no hardware detection because it loads the linux kernel from the floppy and not the usb drive like i need it to for proper operation
as a result the pcmcia slot and the built in modem dont work

i think what i need is a floppy that will look for the kernel on
the usbhd but dont know that much about linux to know how to do that
thanks again
de ve3stz

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 11 2004,18:56

Hmm..

I am sure that there must be better solutions, but here is one attempt:

1) Create a FreeDOS boot disk.
2) Copy linux24 from a DSL floppy-usb boot disk and a freely available program called "loadlin" to your FreeDOS boot disk.
3) Try booting linux with:

A:\loadlin.exe A:\linux24 init=/etc/init root=/dev/sda1

I have not tried this, but it might work.

Since it skips the initial ram disk, it hopefully will immediatly boot from the init on your USB hard drive installation. This assumes that the USB mass storage support is compiled directly into the kernel and is not installed via modules in the initial ram disk.

It probably won't work but give it a try. Floppy disks are cheap.