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Borghart

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Posted: April 19 2006,18:41

Hi,
I have a t600 with a defected harddrive. I would like to use a usb stick instead of a harddisk, but unfortunately the bios does not support it.

Is it possible to boot the DSL Kernel from cdrom, and have the DSL Rootfilesystem on USB-Stick?

I would like not to have the cdrom spinning up, and i fear to use the 'toram' cheatcode, because there is only 128mb ram installed and no swap available.
Maybe one forum user has got some experience with that.
Regards, Borghart

green

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Posted: April 19 2006,19:58

I have a machine that does not boot USB and has 128 Mb RAM. It does just fine with "toram" optioned up at boot. I use the USB stick to save settings, etc, no hard drive needed.

I have not tried to have the CD boot the USB. It may be possible, but don't know how to do that at the moment.

cbagger01

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Posted: April 20 2006,16:54

Does booting from cd with this commnad:

dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1

and with your drive plugged in work?

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