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roberts

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,18:30

I don't see any difference in your method other than using a proprietary formating utility (HPUSBFW.EXE) and having to use WINDOWS. What you describe is on the cdrom documentation. What about those who do not have Windows? I would prefer to see some feedback when the script fails and trying the spb-mbr.sec file to see if we can achieve a self contained solution.

roberts

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,19:39

Apparently, the usb install script now in DSL works if your BIOS supports boot from USB-ZIP. Also, sometimes, it is also necessary to enable USB-KEYBOARD even if you don't have a USB-KEYBOARD. I am looking into finding a solution for USB-HDD boot. Again, I am limited to the hardware that I have access to test on. Any feedback to achieve a non Windows solution would be appreciated.

Please don't take my posts regarding Windows based solutions as being critical of the user who is sharing his solution to getting his device to work.

I am just trying to avoid any dependency on other operation system.

lenaisan
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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,21:47

Well, if you have a DSL live CD and a pendrive, I've also done this :
1. Boot from DSL live CD
2. Launch Root Access
3. Type cfdisk /dev/sda
4. Delete all existing partitions on sda
5. Create new partition : New, Primary, 75 MB, Bootable, Type e
6. Write partition table then Quit
7. Exit Bash
8. Launch Install to pendrive : right-click on desktop, Apps, Tools, Install to Pendrive
9. Follow instructions : y, sda1, y
10. If you see the Done word, the install was successfull, reboot

It works on 2 of my computers (look at previous posts).
This time, the CHS is 1015-9-56 without using sfdisk and with the same pendrive than before (Sandisk mini cruzer 256 MB).
I don't have USB HD nor Linux distro installed on HD to help you Roberts, sorry.

Lenaisan.

Wierdthing
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Posted: Oct. 27 2004,08:38

I too have a sandisk Mini cruzer (256MB) and it gets the same error. I have tried reformatting to type 6 and it still gets the error and then when i go back into fdisk the partition is no longer there

some stats from Cfdisk
Size (MB) 256.38
Sectors 500736
Cylinders 978

This partition is Free space as for some reason the frugal_usb thing gets rid of any partition that I previously have on it.

gknuth

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Posted: Nov. 01 2004,02:25

So, I'm trying to follow this, and I think it'll work just fine, but I can't tell if DSL detected my USB key...

I can boot from the key, but decided that I wanted the "frugal" install so the OS could be live-cd-like. I've tried to run the script, but it doesn't see the key. I used the same path as it was when I booted (/dev/sdb1), but I just get an error saying "no such device or address".

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gabe

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