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Topic: pressed for time question, how to make bootable Hikarunix DSL USB?

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Molos

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Posted: April 15 2006,02:58

Quote (desnotes @ April 14 2006,22:16)

I will try to build one of my USB drives using the hikarunix-0.4.iso this weekend and see what happens and let you know.

Just as a test have you tried burning the iso to a CD and then trying to boot from it? You won't be able to save anything but it would verify that your iso is not corrupt.

desNotes

let me see if I remember this, I put a blank CDRW in and then double click the iso and it brings up the software and burns right?

desnotes

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Posted: April 15 2006,03:11

Not sure what app you have to burn CDs...there are many out there. If you have a CD burner and have done any burning before, just go though the steps but make sure you select the process that will create an iso. You can't just drag and drop the iso over to the CD to burn it.

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Posted: April 16 2006,15:32

Here is what I did to create a USB drive that runs qemu and hikarunix-0.4.iso. You can get the files from a DSL embedded edition

In top USB directory:

hikarunix-0.4.iso
dsl-windows.bat

Create qemu directory and place:

bios.bin
fmod.dll
harddisk
linux_boot.bin
qemu.exe (version 0.8.0)

sdl.dll
vgabios.bin
vgabios-cirrus.bin

Contents of dsl-windows.bat

REM Start qemu on windows.
@ECHO OFF

START qemu\qemu_080.exe -L "\qemu" -m 125 -boot d -soundhw sb16 -localtime -cdrom hikarunix-0.4.iso -hda qemu/harddisk -append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,1"

CLS
EXIT

Molos

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Posted: April 16 2006,18:15

I forgot to ask... how big should I set the hardisk.img file? I go through the qemu menu thing to create it and I've always wondered the minimum and max sizes that the image should be.