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stevensol

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Posted: Oct. 23 2006,03:10

I've installed DSL correctly onto a usb mem stick, set up the bios correctly, and I'e been able to boot into OS. But all it will do is scan for usb devices and finish, then it will start looking for the knoppix image file in scd1 and sda1. It will only look in those two places, then it stops booting. It's like it doesn't know that the USB stick its booting from is even connected to the computer. Please help.

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Posted: Oct. 23 2006,13:13

How did you install it? (might not be correct for your system)

List all the files and directory structure on your usb drive - make sure a ~50mb KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file is there.

You could also try booting with fromusb or fromhd=/dev/sda1

It sees your usb - that's sda.

stevensol

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Posted: Oct. 23 2006,13:43

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Oct. 23 2006,09:13)

Thanks for the reply. Alright Im gonna explain the circumstances here. I installed from XP. The way I installed DSL to my USB drive is unzipping the dsl-embedded.zip to the drive. I then ran syslinux 331 through DOS onto the USB drive.

Here is the current structure of my USB drive.

I've tried both the fromhd and fromusb boot commands, neither work. I also tried boot:dsl qemu frugal... didn't work. I should also tell you that I have a 20 gig USB hd attached to my comp as well. So I don't know which device is which. Should I unhook the other usb drive? I know that when DSL scans for usb devices that it detects the 20 gig drive because I hear the head moving.
I'm assuming the 20 gig would be sda, so what would my USB stick be?

edit- and there is in fact a ~50mb KNOPPIX file within the KNOPPIX folder.

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Posted: Oct. 23 2006,15:14

The order depends on how your BIOS assigns it. In this case though, 2 active usb ports should have been detected...

What filesystem is the drive? (I think usb ones need to be fat16/msdos type)

You could try the other guides .. some users have varying results depending on what usbkey they have.

Also, try renaming the 50-mb KNOPPIX file to 'knoppix'. I know the fat fs is case-insensitive, but it seems like the default syslinux.cfg uses BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix