ke4nt1
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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,16:30 |
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Use sfdisk to change your drive geometry..
Try " sfdisk -S 32 /dev/sda "
That will bring up the sfdisk app, and change the geometry.
Then it will ask you for partition size data.
Make sure that your first partition is not over 1024 cylinders if you want to boot from it.
I made my primary 1 partition 75 MB in size, just to hold DSL and the bootfiles.
This also makes it SO EASY to upgrade whan another version comes out
so for the first line ..
1: 0 75
2: skip >enter>
3: skip >enter>
4: skip
save/write/exit
The rest of your keyspace can go into other partitions, at another time.
We're just trying to get the USB boot working for now.
now, reboot your computer, as suggested, so the drive table can be reread
by the autoconfig..
After rebooting, run "cfdisk /dev/sda" to check your drive geometry again.
You should see a 75 MB LINUX type 83 partition on the drive with 32 sectors per track.
If so, good deal, if not, you didn't successfully write to the USBkey from sfdisk
Now, while in cfdisk, use "type" option to change the type 83 partition to a
type 6 " FAT16 " , again write to the drive and exit and reboot to reread disk
Now, use the instructions found in roberts thread about using frugal_usb, or
if your running from 0.8.1 or better, use the Apps>Tools>Installto USB drive
I have seen several USBkeys boot just fine WITHOUT the dos boot flag .
YMMV
Also , see this post about changes to the frugal_usb.sh script.
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....w;st=10
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ke4nt
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