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fodder

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Posted: June 08 2006,00:01

Been using LiveCD for some time and love it - just started using USB boot. I succeeded in creating a USB-ZIP bootable pen drive (using the included tool) that has DSL on sda1 and I put the mydsl extensions in sda2.
(I just found out that this is wrong but most things actually worked fine that way - the reason I started looking for answers is that OpenOffice 2.0 was running really slow. :-)
So I just tried to copy my mydsl extensions to the /cdrom folder but I keep getting the error: "No space left on device" and I know that the drive is big enough (512megs) but am not sure about the partition size.

My questions are:
1) The /cdrom directory that I am supposed to put the extensions in is the one that is created on a normal USB boot up accessable from the root directory (not mnt/cdrom/ and not KNOPPIX/cdrom), correct?
2) When I created the drive I included in the startup cheat codes "mydsl=sda2". If I succeed in getting the extensions into the /cdrom directory, what will that need to be changed to? (I ask because I have changed it to "mydsl=cdrom" and it looks on the actual cdrom. :-)
3) I don't remember a way to control partition size using the "Install to USB Pendrive" tool - did I miss something? Or is my problem elseware?

Thanks for any help.

roberts

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Posted: June 08 2006,00:27

For a usb-zip install you have done things correctly.
usb-zip creates a small partition to meet ZIP specs.
There is not enough room to store extensions in the first partition mounted as /cdrom.
Therefore leave your setup as is, using sda2 to store your extensions.

fodder

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Posted: June 08 2006,17:30

Quote (roberts @ June 07 2006,20:27)

For a usb-zip install you have done things correctly.

Thanks so much for the quick response.

I'll try and revert to the non-beta OpenOffice 1.1.4 to see if it will run correctly. It was kind of weird, OOo 2.0 (beta - UCI) would open and edit an Impress presentation fine, but when I tried to display it, it was reeeeeeeeealy slow - choppy transistions, etc. (no video or anything, just vanilla slides.) I did notice that it was significantly faster when using a USB 2.0 port as opposed to a 1.1, but it was still way too slow - and my pendrive is a brand new Sony (relatively high r/w speed). But when OOo was stored on the hard drive, it worked fine.

Anyway, thanks again and I'll post my results in a little while. Any additional thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

humpty

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Posted: June 08 2006,19:23

you can do a speed test which is really meant for HDs but works for
pendrives;

sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 34 MB in 3.12 seconds = 10.90 MB/sec

fodder

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Posted: June 08 2006,21:29

Quote (humpty @ June 08 2006,15:23)

you can do a speed test which is really meant for HDs but works for
pendrives;

sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

Thanks for the tip;
Multiple tests on my 512M Sony MicroVault returned right around 9 Mb/sec.

Not the best, but not terrible, either. I'm still trying to download OOo 1.1.4 - keep getting bad checksums.

More info soon...

EDIT: I forgot to say in my second post, that I put OOo 2.0 on a LiveCD and even when running "toram" it did the same thing as the pendrive - i.e. ran really slow and at times would cause OOo to shut down.

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