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Posted: April 16 2006,17:48

I have also tried now with many different boot options from floppydisk. But I didn't get it working.

Which kind of problem is this? Who can solve it?

Do you think that it is a Knoppix problem?
Do you think that it is a DSL problem?
Do you think that it is a USB-pen problem?

I would like to boot from floppydisk and have the USB-pen write protected. I still do not know, if other users have same problems, when they do the same. Nobody with a write-protectable USB-pen? Any ideas, what I can do / test ?

Thank you

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Posted: April 17 2006,21:18

Hmm Im having similar problems but i cant get the usb pen to unlock. WIndows AND dsl both report that the pen is locked. All i did was run the Make USB-ZIp script.

On boot it gives me the kernel panic. I dont know why but I would like a solution.

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Posted: April 18 2006,16:47

tecker:

That's also strange.

Which kind of USB-pen did you use?
Of which brand is your USB-pen?
Does it have a write-protect switch?

What a pity that there are so few replies.

Either most of the users don't have write-protectable USB-pens or they don't use it in connection with a floppydisk.

Looking forward for more replies and maybe a helping solution.

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Posted: April 18 2006,19:25

It is a generic USB got it on sale for half price figured i would mess around with it. The install for Pendrive infor reports
Vendor: Flash
Model Drive UT_USB20
Type: Direct-Access.
Size: 128 MB.

The box i got it in doesn't have anything really specific about the company.

I installed once as a USB-Zip but it wouldnt boot. Now i have been SFdisking the parameters per the geometry but am affraid that it may be toast. It would be nice as something like this has happened before.

I also do not plan on using a floppy in cordination with the PenDrive but it may come to that.

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Posted: April 29 2006,07:17

Still no news ?

Nobody else has a floppy and a write-protectable usb-pen ?

As described before, I still get a kernel panic when I first boot from floppy-disk and second from the write-protected usb-pen. This problem only happens, when the usb-pen is write-protected. I have no idea, why it has to be write-enabled, if you first boot from floppy-disk.

Hope there will be a solution for this.
Thank you in advance.

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