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malice

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Posted: Feb. 04 2006,21:09

First off I must say your DSL is pretty damn cool. I bought a 512 usb stick and I want a setup for recovery situations and the virtual machine in windows. Im assuming the 5 way means that the stick is both bootable and can run the windows emulator. Thats where i want to be. If thats not possible just say so and I will give up on this. First off one thing you should know is I have one of those new U3 type sticks. This shows up in windows as 2 drives. A very tiny drive with the U3 launcher and a second drive for storage. Before you say all bets are off and its not possible you should know a couple of things.
1. I have successfully created a bootable stick by running from cd and using the install to usb tool. This works fine.
2. I have successfully created the embeded install and it runs in windows just fine.
What im trying to do is have it bootable and be able to run in windows. I assume this is the 5 way script so I booted from cd and downloaded the 5way script to ramdisk and opened the shell and ran it. here is where I get stuck.

DSL USB pendrive 5-way installation utility.
No responsibility for data loss or hardware damage!
Your pendrive must have a vfat partition visibile to DSL.
This usually means 32 sector/track and not more than 1024 cyclinders.
Use cfdisk to accomplish this task. (See readme.txt)
DO NOT have your pendrive mounted.
Ready to proceed (y/..)? y
Standby fetching the embedded zip file...
Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.80]:21
dsl-embedded.zip 100% |*****************************| 51358 KB 00:00 ETA
Enter the target device to hold image (EXAMPLE: sda1): sda1
Last change to exit before destroying all data on /dev/sda1
Continue (y/..)? y

Formatting /dev/sda1
umount: /mnt/sda1 is not mounted (according to mtab)
mkdosfs 2.9 (15 May 2003)
/dev/sda1: Permission denied
Error creating DOS filesystem.

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,05:22

Hmm...

maybe you are not running the script as the "root" or superuser?

Try typing:

sudo su

and then run the script again.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,06:20

I probably should deprecate this script.
[edit] I have now deprecated this script.[/edit]

5-way is pretty much obsolete as it only tries USB-ZIP install, 32 sectors per track and up to 1024 cyclinders.
Made back in the olden days of 64MB and 128MB pendrives.

If you already have dsl-embedded working on your 512MB pendrive, and if your computer's bios supports USB booting then I would try it as is. Usually it should work.

It it does not boot natively from your computer then I would try to apply syslinux boot loader to the pendrive, or even a thrid party or manufacture's boot utility.

Trying to apply a USB-ZIP style install to a 512MB pendrive is most likely not to be what you want and will most likely fail in trying to change the drives geometry.

With dsl-embedded, I do not recommend doing anything to the pendrive except to unzip the archive onto it.

Edited by roberts on Feb. 05 2006,06:36