One USB Two Drives

Forum: Laptops
Topic: One USB Two Drives
started by: LordCalf

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 04 2004,08:30

Is there any way to boot with the usb boot disc on a usb floppy drive and then cut off this drive and put in a usb cdrw and boot the dsl live cd when the bootdisc is ready with work ? I have just ONE USB to place on my Portégé 3480 !

could that crazy thing work

if yes please say me some steps how i get along the install after booting from bootdisc

oh man much "boot"

Posted by henk1955 on Nov. 04 2004,10:46

this question is related to your other question?
do you have a working os on the /dev/hda3?

if so you can copy the /KNOPPIX dir to the ext2 partition and use the bootfloppy.
at the boot prompt type:
dsl fromhd=/dev/hda3

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 04 2004,11:03

yes its related to this,
my os is on the first partition and the ext2 is clear of data just made with partition magic 8
all volks hda1 windows 2000 professional
hda2 just another data with ntfs
hda3 ext2 (i think)
hda4 swap

how i could copy the /KNOPPIX to hda3 when run windows ?
or do you mean copy /KNOPPIX to hda1 or 2 and boot with disc to copy from 1 or 2 to hda3 but i dont think i find a bootdisc to mount my hda"x"

do you have any idea ? *i get crazy without DSL on my laptop* :angry:

Posted by henk1955 on Nov. 04 2004,11:06

so your ext2 is "empty" why dont you format is fat32
then you can read and write it from winows and still use dsl on it?

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 04 2004,11:15

you mean make a fat32 not ext2 and copy the complete dsl cd to the fat32 ? boot from hda3 hmmm bootdisc bullshit i think thats not so good why? lilo or such is on start not running i mean ARGH HOW TO

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Posted by henk1955 on Nov. 04 2004,11:19

i have 2 pc running dsl of fat32.
i use the grub bootloader.
this can bee installed onto a fat32 partition. and you can multie boot what ever you like.
i run win98 and dsl from one and the same fat32 partition

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 04 2004,12:29

if i copy the dsl cd to hda3 and install grub loader even on it could that start ? or is the loader even for ntfs i have on hda1

Posted by henk1955 on Nov. 04 2004,12:41

yes it should be able to start your w2k, xp nt4 on ntfs.