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Topic: Half and Half?, Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't

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Greens

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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,01:17

Hello all.

First, let me say that DSL is excellent - it truly proves that size doesn't matter. It's run wonderfully, when I've been able to get it to run. I'd also like to apologize if this has been asked before.

I had some trouble, initially, getting DSL set up on my Pen Drive; for some reason, I couldn't get the "Install to USB Pen Drive" option from within DSL to produce a working install, but I was able to get it to work by following a method I saw posted here.. this topic, I believe. I'm still having a small problem, however, and that is that I can't get it to work on my own computer.

My computer does support USB booting, and it does recognize the drive as bootable. But, when I choose the option to boot from the drive, it says it cannot find the kernel. I haven't had this problem on any other USB-boot compatible computer, though - it loads up, no problems whatever.

I'm also having trouble running it from within my OS - I use Fedora Core 5. It usually says it doesn't recognize the command, or nothing at all happens.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again.

~Greens

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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,14:18

Maybe its the USB-HDD vs USB-ZIP compatibility issue.

How are you trying to run it in FC5... using qemu in dsl-embedded? What commands are you using?

Greens

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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,21:04

Well, I was fairly certain HDD would do it. My computer is practically identical to one of the other machines I got it to boot from. I suppose I hadn't considered that, though.. it is a possibility. How might I check for that?

And, yes, I was trying to run it embedded. You may have to forgive me, I'm still relatively new to this sort of thing, but I tried to follow the Linux instructions under the readme file.. umm.. here:

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To use the Virtual Machine provided by Qemu...

When Running from Windows:
Double click on 'dsl-windows.bat'

When Running from Linux:
Mount the pendrive and then
from shell type:

dsl-linux.sh

If dsl-linux will not execute then see qemu-linux-notes.txt

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I try to do this, and what I basically get is a message saying "dsl-linux.sh: command not found." After this I did consult the file it mentions, and after following that process(something about mounting it differently) received the same error message.

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Posted: Oct. 17 2006,14:45

Check your BIOS/motherboard manual.

To execute something in the terminal, you have to specify the relative or full path, unless it is specified in the PATH environmental variable.

For example,
$ cd /path/to/my/dsl-embedded
$ ./dsl-linux.sh
where '.' signifies the current directory.

This is the same as
$ /path/to/my/dsl-embedded/dsl-linux.sh

It _may_ be easier for you to use emelFM though, if you don't like the console much, but if you're going to use the console - I'd suggest for you to find any guide for more info.

Greens

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Posted: Oct. 17 2006,20:59

I really should be more specific.. once more I apologize.

I did run this from within the directory containing that file. Gave me that error message at that point. I don't see much different in what you said to do there from what I did.. I may not have put the "./" before "dsl-linux.sh", though, so maybe I'll give that another shot...

Okay, I tried it again, and now it's giving me a "./dsl-linux.sh: Permission denied" message(even after I become root).

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[Greens@localhost /]# su
Password:
[root@localhost /]# cd media
[root@localhost media]# cd disk ((/media/disk is where it's mounted))
[root@localhost disk]# ./dsl-linux.sh
bash: ./dsl-linux.sh: Permission denied

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